Redemption and Revolution: American and Chinese New Women in the Early Twentieth Century

by Motoe Sasaki

In the early twentieth century, a good number of college-educated Protestant American women went abroad by taking up missionary careers in teaching, nursing, and medicine. Most often, their destination was China, which became a major mission field for the U.S. Protestant missionary movement as the United States emerged to become an imperial power. These missionary women formed a cohort of new women who sought to be liberated from traditional gender...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801451396
• ISBN13: 9780801451393
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher