A belief in the desperate need of "Oriental" women for salvation and social uplift was largely responsible for feminizing the American Protestant foreign mission movement. Such powerful and widely disseminated images demonstrated to young American women their relatively privileged position in society and, throughout the nineteenth-century, led many to support the cause of missions with their money and sometimes their lives. In the late eighteenth through the early nineteenth-centuries, popular evangelical literature began circulating descriptions of women of the "Orient" designed to illustrate the need of those women for the Christian gospel. This new contribution suggests that the feminization of the later mission movement actually stemmed in large part from images of the "degraded Oriental woman" that popular evangelical literature had been circulating since the 1790s, and that the increasing focus on and involvement of women was supported by male denominational leaders as an important strategy for reaching the world with the Christian gospel. Most scholars have argued that the emergence of women as a dominant force in American Protestant missions in the late nineteenth-century was an outgrowth of nascent feminist activism in the various denominations. Lisa Joy Pruitt offers a new look at women's involvement in the mission movement, with a welcome focus on the often overlooked antebellum era. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Fidelia Fiske William Guest, Fidelia Fiske Morgan & Chase, 1870 Religion Christian Ministry Missions Biography & Autobiography / Religious Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions Social Science / Women's Studies ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc.
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