Gender, Thrift and Indigenous Adaptations
Money and missionary medicine in colonial India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4348155 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maina Chawla Singh (Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 701-717 |
| Publication date | 2006-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612020600938541 |
| OpenAlex | W2052217977 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article examines the skills in money and the management of resources that were developed by women missionaries in India between the 1870s and the 1940s. Focusing on the strategies and initiatives of three physicians—Clara Swain, Anna Kugler and Edith Brown—it argues that women disrupted existing patriarchal arrangements by entering ‘male’ domains of finance and administration. Modest ventures were transformed into state institutions through alliances with stakeholders, including missionary boards and donors at ‘home’ as well as members of indigenous elites who provided valuable land donations. Western institutional models needed to be adapted to function within local economies. Western missionary women used an interesting blend of thrift, innovation and indigenization to stretch their material and human resources. Thus, women physicians used their medical work with overseas missions to carve out new roles, which empowered them socially and professionally
Administration (probate law · Colonialism · Economic growth · Economics · Indigenization · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Work (physics · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Engineering · Law · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religion, Society, and Development · Ecology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |