White Already to Harvest
South Australian Women Missionaries in India1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3945971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Allen (0000-0001-5675-4336, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 92-107 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/014177800406958 |
| OpenAlex | W181284880 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 17 |
In 1882, the South Australian Baptist Missionary Society sent off its first missionaries to Faridpur in East Bengal. Miss Marie Gilbert and Miss Ellen Arnold were the first of a stream of missionary women who left the young South Australian colony to work in India. Scores of women from other Christian denominations and from other Australian colonies also went to India and indeed to other mission fields in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As with other western women missionaries, these women intended to save souls and to bring India's daughters to Christ, often by means of medical work. But unlike their British sisters, these women came from the edge of empire to intervene in another, but different, colonial site. These missionary ventures coincided with efforts of the Australian settlers to elaborate for themselves an identity separate from and against that of the metropolitan centre. Within these debates, contestations over the meaning of 'the colonial girl' and 'the Australian girl' played a key role. The article explores why the women were drawn to India rather than to working with Aboriginal people in Australia. It begins to investigate how in seeking to reconstruct Indian womanhood they elaborated for themselves a separate colonial, Australian identity and how much in their missionary endeavours they affirmed an identity as white, Christian and ultimately British
Archaeology · Art · BENGAL · British Empire · Colonialism · Ethnology · Girl · Identity (music) · Meaning (existential) · Sociology · White (mutation) · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Race, History, and American Society
Australian women
Australian cultural history
Postcolonial Theory
Western Women and Imperialism
Hear an indian sister’s plea”
The Doomed Race
Gender, citizenship and race in the woman's Christian temperance union of Australia, 1890 to the 1930s
The white woman's burden
Home and Harem
Citizens of their World
Containment and control
Feminism, Colonialism and Aboriginal Workers
Assimilation Begins in the Home
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2017 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |