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| Manifest Domesticity: The American Protestant Women Missionary Movement to China and Its Gendered Logic |
| ZHU Hua |
| College of Foreign Studies at Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China |
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Abstract Protestant missionary movement in China lasted for more than a century and more than half of the missionaries were women, whose enterprise abroad seemed to have come into conflict with the traditional ideology of separate spheres and true womanhood. Manifest Domesticity as a theory exposes how women's domesticity strikes a discursive conspiracy with masculine Manifest Destiny and legitimatizes women's missionary effort abroad. The missionary women took care of public and domestic affairs at the same time. They conveyed to the American public that their true womanhood was realized in a discourse of religious self-sacrifice abroad, an effort that helped them assume a social identity of androgyny.
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