Happy is the bride the rain falls on’

1 Climate, Health and ‘The Woman Question’ in Nineteenth‐century Missionary Documentation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8963166
AutoresGeorgina H Endfield (0000-0001-6052-2204, University of Nottingham, autor correspondente), D J Nash (0000-0002-7641-5857, University of Brighton)
Ano2005
Volume30
Fascículo3
Páginas368-386
Data de publicação2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-5661.2005.00177.x
OpenAlexW2164355791
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas55

European ‘acclimatization’ represented a central geographical and medical question throughout the nineteenth century. Prolonged residences by Europeans in the tropics were thought to result in physical and moral deterioration, and women were thought to be particularly vulnerable. Among the first British women to venture into the tropics and sub‐tropics, missionary women played an important role in the articulation of acclimatization debates. In this paper, we use unpublished application and medical correspondence to illustrate how perspectives offered by and about missionary wives and female missionaries applying to the London Missionary Society reflect and challenged popular constructions of the tropics as uniformly dangerous places

Archaeology · Articulation (sociology · Biology · Documentation · Political science · Sociology · Tropical climate · Tropics · Ecology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Law