Sexual Control and the Remaking of Gender
The Attempt of Nineteenth-Century Protestant Norwegian Women to Export Western Domesticity to Madagascar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7096776 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Line Nyhagen Predelli (corresponding author), Line Nyhagen (0000-0002-0715-995X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 81-103 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of women's history (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1042-7961 • E-ISSN: 1527-2036 |
| Publisher | Binghamton University (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jowh.2000.0044 |
| OpenAlex | W2031974232 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 27 |
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
Boarding school · Human sexuality · Islam · Morality · Norwegian · Political science · Protestantism · Social control · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Religious studies
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Colonialism and Culture
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No Separate Refuge
Under Western Eyes
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Passionlessness
Christianity and colonialism in South Africa
Imperial Leather
Making Empire Respectable
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2022 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |