What kind of men were missionaries? What kind of masculinity did they represent, in ideology as well as in practice? Presupposing masculinity to be a cluster of cultural ideas and social practices that change over time and space, and not a stable entity with a natural, inherent meaning, Kristin Fjelde Tjelle seeks to answer such questions.

Autorentext

Kristin Fjelde Tjelle is a historian and Director of the School of Mission and Theology in Stavanger, Norway. Her research is on the Norwegian Missionary Movement in the nineteenth and twentieth century with a particular interest in missions and gender.

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1. Introduction: Missionaries and Masculinities PART 1: THE CONSTRUCTION OF NORWEGIAN LUTHERAN MISSIONARY MASCULINITY 2. Missionary Self-Making 3. Proper Missionary Masculinity 4. Confessional Missionary Masculinity 5. Norwegian Missionary Masculinity and 'Other' Zulu Masculinity 6. Missionary Masculinity versus Missionary Femininity PART 2: MISSIONARY MASCULINITY BETWEEN PROFESSIONALISM AND PRIVACY 7. Missionary Men 8. Family Men 9. Men in The World