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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 Lutheran boarding school for girls that the Norwegian Missionary Society established in Madagascar in 1872 is used to examine how these categories were sought, made, and remade through discipline and social control, and how those subjected to discipline and control limited the effectiveness of missionaries' efforts. Through close readings of missionary texts, it is possible to detect both subtle and not-so-subtle acts of resistance on the part of Malagasies living at the boarding school.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Citation
NYHAGEN PREDELLI, L., 2000. Sexual control and the remaking of gender: the attempt of nineteenth-century protestant Norwegian women to export Western domesticity to Madagascar. Journal of Women's History, 12 (2), pp. 81-103Publisher
© John Hopkins University PressVersion
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2000Notes
This article is closed access, it was published in the serial, Journal of Women's History [© John Hopkins University Press]. The definitive version is available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jowh/summary/v012/12.2predelli.htmlISSN
1042-7961Publisher version
Language
- en