‘‘Stepmother America’’: The Woman’s Board of Missions in the Philippines, 1902–1930

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. I. re-visioning american women in the world
6. Women’s Mission in Historical Perspective: American Identity and Christian Internationalism 19
7. Woman, Missions, and Empire: New Approaches to American Cultural Expansion 43
8. II. Women
9. Canonizing Harriet Newell: Women, the Evangelical Press, and the Foreign Mission Movement in New England, 1800–1840 69
10. An Unwomanly Woman and Her Sons in Christ: Faith, Empire, and Gender in Colonial Rhodesia, 1899–1906 94
11. ‘‘So Thoroughly American’’ Gertrude Howe, Kang Cheng, and Cultural Imperialism in the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, 1872–1931 117
12. From Redeemers to Partners: American Women Missionaries and the ‘‘Woman Question’’ in India, 1919–1939 141
13. III. Mission
14. Settler Colonists, ‘‘Christian Citizenship,’’ and the Women’s Missionary Federation at the Bethany Indian Mission in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, 1884–1934 167
15. New Life, New Faith, New Nation, New Women: Competing Models at the Door of Hope Mission in Shanghai 195
16. ‘‘No Nation Can Rise Higher than Its Women’’: The Women’s Ecumenical Missionary Movement and Tokyo Woman’s Christian College 218
17. Nile Mother: Lillian Trasher and the Orphans of Egypt 240
18. IV. Nation
19. Embracing Domesticity: Women, Mission, and Nation Building in Ottoman Europe, 1832–1872 269
20. Imperial Encounters at Home: Women, Empire, and the Home Mission Project in Late Nineteenth-Century America 293
21. Three African American Women Missionaries in the Congo, 1887–1899: The Confluence of Race, Culture, Identity, and Nationality 318
22. ‘‘Stepmother America’’: The Woman’s Board of Missions in the Philippines, 1902–1930 342
23. Conclusion. Doing Everything: Religion, Race, and Empire in the U.S. Protestant Women’s Missionary Enterprise, 1812–1960 367
24. Selected Bibliography 391
25. Contributors 397
26. Index 401