Modern Women Modernizing Men : The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69.

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Modern Women Modernizing Men -- Introduction -- 1 "A Life Lived and Not a Message Delivered": Challenge and Change in Interwar Missions -- 2 "Colleagues and Eventually Successors": Dr. Choné Oliver and the Struggle to Establish a Christian Medical College in Late Colonial India -- 3 The Triumph of "Standards" over "Sisterhood": Florence Murray's Approach to the Practice and Teaching of Western Medicine in Korea, 1921- 69 -- 4 Books for Africa: Margaret Wrong and the Gendering of African Literature, 1929- 63 -- 5 Women in a Transitional Era: Links and Legacies -- Appendices -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Explores how professionalism, religion, and feminism came together to enable missionary women to become the colleagues and mentors of Western and non-Western men.

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