Helpers - sisters - wives: white women on Australian missions
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Ganter, Regina
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2015
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The contribution of women to Christian missions tends to disappear in mission historiography that is focused on the allocated roles of missionaries. Looking through the eyes of male narrators at a range of Protestant and Catholic missions in different parts of Australia we can, however, decipher a pattern of the fundamental and largely unstated importance of the presence of women as knitters of family and providers of care and compassion.The contribution of women to Christian missions tends to disappear in mission historiography that is focused on the allocated roles of missionaries. Looking through the eyes of male narrators at a range of Protestant and Catholic missions in different parts of Australia we can, however, decipher a pattern of the fundamental and largely unstated importance of the presence of women as knitters of family and providers of care and compassion.
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Journal Title
Journal of Australian Studies
Volume
39
Issue
1
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© 2015 International Australian Studies Association (InASA). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis (Routledge) in Journal of Australian Studies on 17 Apr 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14443058.2014.990401
Subject
Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)