Sexual control and the remaking of gender: the attempt of nineteenth-century protestant Norwegian women to export Western domesticity to Madagascar

This article explores how nineteenth-century Protestant women missionaries utilized categories of morality and religion, gender, sexuality, race, and class in an effort to elevate the status of "heathen" women through exporting a Western notion of women's domesticity. The case of a Lu...

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Main Author: Line Nyhagen
Format: Default Article
Published: 2000
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/9003
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