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The making of manhood among Swedish missionaries in China and Mongolia, c. 1890-c. 1914 / by Erik Sidenvall

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Sidenvall, Erik
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 189 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Introduction -- The Swedish missionary revival in context -- A public missionary and a domestic man : Olof Bingmark, 1875-1900 -- Extending a male private sphere, Otto Öberg, 1869-1917 -- The making of a domestic adventurer : Frans August Larson, 1870-1957 -- Education and the problem of missionary self-making : Alfred Fagerholm, 1871-1923 -- Masculinising missions : consequences and departures.
Summary
This book offers a pioneering account of the relationship between missionary work and masculinity. By examining four individual men this study explores how self-making occurred within foreign missions, but also how conceptions of male gender informed missionary work.
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ISBN
9789047427544 (electronic bk.)
9047427548 (electronic bk.)
9789004174085 (cloth)
9004174087 (cloth)
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text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183) and index.
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