Noriko Kawamura Ishii

American Women Missionaries at Kobe College, 1873-1909

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines one aspect of American women's professionalization and the implications of the cross-cultural dialogue between American woman missionaries and Japanese students and supporters at Kobe College between 1873 and 1909.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780415653503
• ISBN-10: 0415653509
• Artikelnr.: 36622591

Autorenporträt

Noriko Kawamura Ishii is Professor in the Department of English Studies at Sophia University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. American Women at Home: The Woman's Board of Missions of
the Interior and American Women Missionaries to Japan 3. Missionary Work
Launched: Kobe Home, 1873-1877, the Founding Years 4. A Transition to
Education as a Profession: Kobe Home to Kobe Girls' School, 1877-1882 5.
Missionary Aspirations for Higher Education: Kobe Girls' School to Kobe
College, 1883-1909. Epilogue: The Dissolution of Women's Authority: Kobe
College, 1910-1927. Appendix.