A New Generation
Missionary Education and Changes in Women’s Roles in Traditional Northern Thai Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6086573 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Herbert R Swanson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 187-206 |
| Publication date | 1988-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0217-9520 • E-ISSN: 1793-2858 |
| Publisher | ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1355/sj3-2d |
| OpenAlex | W1977331476 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
Nineteenth-century American Presbyterian missionaries introduced new women's roles into northern Thai society through their churches and institutions. While appreciating northern Thai women's social freedom, the missionaries, influenced by an ideal of true womanhood, found women's low religious status in Buddhism and lack of educational opportunities repugnant They sought to change women's roles by educating convert women, thus creating the first corps of women professionals in northern Siam. The missionaries unintentionally secularized education and thereby expanded the social roles available to northern Thai women. In doing so, they repeated in northern Siam a pattern of the Protestant role in social change and secularization common in American social history
Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
The feminization of American culture
Cradle of the Middle Class
Thai peasant social structure
Womanhood in America
The social reality of religion
Daughters of the Promised Land
Feminine Spirituality in America
The Status and Role of Thai Women in the Pre-Modern Period
Family Life in a Northern Thai Village
The Female Seminary Movement and Woman's Mission in Antebellum America
She Hath Done What She Could
The Cult of True Womanhood
Text and Context
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |