The making of manhood among Swedish missionaries in China and Mongolia, c. 1890-c. 1914 / / by Erik Sidenvall.

• Superior document: Studies in Christian mission, v. 36
• Author: Sidenvall, Erik.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Christian mission ; v. 36.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Over the last thirty years, issues of gender have been creatively explored within the field of mission studies. Whereas the life and work of female missionaries have been fruitfully reflected upon, male gender identity has often been understood as an unchanging category. This book offers a pioneering account of the relationship between missionary work and masculinity. By examining four individual men this study explores how self-making occurred within foreign missions, but also how conceptions of male gender informed missionary work. Changes that occurred in the lives of these men are placed within the broader context of how issues of gender were renegotiated within the contemporary missionary movement.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- The Swedish missionary revival in context -- A public missionary and a domestic man : Olof Bingmark, 1875-1900 -- Extending a male private sphere, Otto Oberg, 1869-1917 -- The making of a domestic adventurer : Frans August Larson, 1870-1957 -- Education and the problem of missionary self-making : Alfred Fagerholm, 1871-1923 -- Masculinising missions : consequences and departures.