Ywca Magazine

Author : Elizabeth A. Littell-Lamb
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774869232

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The YWCA in China by Elizabeth A. Littell-Lamb Pdf

The YWCA arrived in China as a cultural interloper in 1899. How did activist Christian Chinese women maintain their identity and social relevance through the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century? The YWCA in China explores how the Young Women’s Christian Association responded to the needs of Chinese women and society both before and after the 1949 revolution ushered in a communist state. Western secretaries originally defined the Chinese YWCA movement, but successive generations of Chinese leadership localized its Western-defined organizational ethos. Over time, "the Y" became class conscious and progressive as Chinese women transformed it from a vehicle for moral and material uplift to an instrument for social action and an organizational citizen of China. And after 1949, national YWCA leaders supported the Maoist regime because they believed the social goals of the YWCA aligned with Mao’s revolutionary aims. The YWCA in China is a fascinating investigation of the lives, thinking, and action of women whose varied forms of Christian and Chinese identity were buffeted by historical events that moulded their social philosophies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106020373996

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YWCA Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Women
ISBN : MINN:31951002276055M

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The YWCA Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183021537119

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The YWCA Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nina Mjagkij,Margaret Ann Spratt
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814755426

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Men and Women Adrift by Nina Mjagkij,Margaret Ann Spratt Pdf

The YMCA and the YWCA have been an integral part of America's urban landscape since their emergence almost 150 years ago. Yet the significant influence these organizations had on American society has been largely overlooked. Men and Women Adrift explores the role of the YMCA and YWCA in shaping the identities of America's urban population. Examining the urban experiences of the single young men and women who came to the cities in search of employment and personal freedom, these essays trace the role of the YMCA and the YWCA in urban America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The contributors detail the YMCA's early competition with churches and other urban institutions, the associations' unique architectural style, their services for members of the working class, African Americans, and immigrants, and their role in defining gender and sexual identities. The volume includes contributions by Michelle Busby, Jessica Elfenbein, Sarah Heath, Adrienne Lash Jones, Paula Lupkin, Raymond A. Mohl, Elizabeth Norris, Cliff Putney, Nancy Robertson, Thomas Winter, and John D. Wrathall.

Author : Aihua Zhang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793608154

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The Beijing Young Women’s Christian Association, 1927–1937 by Aihua Zhang Pdf

By exploring the interplay among gender, religion, and modernity, this book exposes the part Chinese Christian women played in China’s quest for a strong nation in general and in Republican Beijing’s modern transformation in particular. Focusing on the Beijing Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), the author examines how the Association, guided by the Christian tenet “to serve, not to be served,” tailored its Western models and devised new programs to meet the city’s demands. Its enterprises ranged from providing women- and child-oriented facilities to promoting constructive recreational activities and from reforming home and family to improving public health. Through an analysis of these endeavors, the author argues that the Chinese YW women's contribution to the city's modernity was a creative embodiment of the then socially targeted missionary movement known as the Social Gospel. In the process, they demonstrated their distinctive new ideals of womanhood featuring practicality, social service, and broad cooperation. These qualities set them apart from both traditional women and other brands of the New Woman. While criticized as trivial, their efforts, however, pioneered modern social service in China and complemented what municipal authorities and other progressive groups undertook to modernize the city.

Author : Letty M. Russell,Margaret A. Farley,Serene Jones
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664257887

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Liberating Eschatology by Letty M. Russell,Margaret A. Farley,Serene Jones Pdf

This volume addresses a theme long essential to feminist and liberationist theology: in what can we hope, and what role should hope play in our actions and our lives? It provides a constructive set of proposals and fills a crucial gap in theological resources as well-known contributors address the theme from their different contexts and fields.

Author : Xiaoxin Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2589 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317474678

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Christianity in China by Xiaoxin Wu Pdf

Now revised and updated to incorporate numerous new materials, this is the major source for researching American Christian activity in China, especially that of missions and missionaries. It provides a thorough introduction and guide to primary and secondary sources on Christian enterprises and individuals in China that are preserved in hundreds of libraries, archives, historical societies, headquarters of religious orders, and other repositories in the United States. It includes data from the beginnings of Christianity in China in the early eighth century through 1952, when American missionary activity in China virtually ceased. For this new edition, the institutional base has shifted from the Princeton Theological Seminary (Protestant) to the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural Relations at the University of San Francisco (Jesuit), reflecting the ecumenical nature of this monumental undertaking.

Author : R. G. Tiedemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315497327

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Reference Guide to Christian Missionary Societies in China: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century by R. G. Tiedemann Pdf

This comprehensive guide will facilitate scholarly research concerning the history of Christianity in China as well as the wider Sino-Western cultural encounter. It will assist scholars in their search for material on the anthropological, educational, medical, scientific, social, political, and religious dimensions of the missionary presence in China prior to 1950.The guide contains nearly five hundred entries identifying both Roman Catholic and Protestant missionary sending agencies and related religious congregations. Each entry includes the organization's name in English, followed by its Chinese name, country of origin, and denominational affiliation. Special attention has been paid to identifying the many small, lesser-known groups that arrived in China during the early decades of the twentieth century. In addition, a special category of the as yet little-studied indigenous communities of Chinese women has also been included. Multiple indexes enhance the guide's accessibility.

Author : Wanda A. Hendricks
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252053573

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The Life of Madie Hall Xuma by Wanda A. Hendricks Pdf

Revered in South Africa as "An African American Mother of the Nation," Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma spent her extraordinary life immersed in global women's activism. Wanda A. Hendricks's biography follows Hall Xuma from her upbringing in the Jim Crow South to her leadership role in the African National Congress (ANC) and beyond. Hall Xuma was already known for her social welfare work when she married South African physician and ANC activist Alfred Bitini Xuma. Becoming president of the ANC Women’s League put Hall Xuma at the forefront of fighting racial discrimination as South Africa moved toward apartheid. Hendricks provides the long-overlooked context for the events that undergirded Hall Xuma’s life and work. As she shows, a confluence of history, ideas, and organizations both shaped Hall Xuma and centered her in the histories of Black women and women’s activism, and of South Africa and the United States.

Author : Amy C. Schneidhorst
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441191854

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Building a Just and Secure World by Amy C. Schneidhorst Pdf

Building a Just and Secure World highlights women's activism, often peripheral and one-dimensional in peace movement historiography which tends to dramatize men's antiwar and antinuclear activism in national organizations. In Chicago, an urban center of anti-war and civil rights activism, a generation of middle-aged women leaders came to their involvement in the movement through previous experience in mixed-sex Leftist movements and local civil rights campaigns. Participant historians of Sixties New Left, peace, and feminist movements of the Sixties have argued that the Old Left was defunct and the younger generation re-energized socialism in the early 1960s. These historians characterized Popular Front leftists as anticommunist cold war liberals who had abandoned youthful revolutionary aspirations for the reformist New Deal welfare state. Contrary to the arguments the Popular Front politics were defunct, Schneidhorst joins historians who argue the Popular Front generation continued to promote progressive and radical goals into the 1960s.

Author : Anne-Marie Brady,Douglas Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415528658

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Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China by Anne-Marie Brady,Douglas Brown Pdf

By exploring the diverse nature of foreign activities in Republican China, this book complicates the dominant narratives of the imperialistic foreigner and Chinese victim. The spaces and relationships examined in the essays in this volume reveal a complex series of interactions between foreigners and the people of China which go far beyond one-way transmission or exploitation. This edited volume adopts a uniquely multi-disciplinary approach to the study of foreigners in China, and utilises the perspectives of historiography, literary studies, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, and political science.

Author : Danielle L. McGuire,John Dittmer
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813140247

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Freedom Rights by Danielle L. McGuire,John Dittmer Pdf

In his seminal article "Freedom Then, Freedom Now," renowned civil rights historian Steven F. Lawson described his vision for the future study of the civil rights movement. Lawson called for a deeper examination of the social, economic, and political factors that influenced the movement's development and growth. He urged his fellow scholars to connect the "local with the national, the political with the social," and to investigate the ideological origins of the civil rights movement, its internal dynamics, the role of women, and the significance of gender and sexuality. In Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement, editors Danielle L. McGuire and John Dittmer follow Lawson's example, bringing together the best new scholarship on the modern civil rights movement. The work expands our understanding of the movement by engaging issues of local and national politics, gender and race relations, family, community, and sexuality. The volume addresses cultural, legal, and social developments and also investigates the roots of the movement. Each essay highlights important moments in the history of the struggle, from the impact of the Young Women's Christian Association on integration to the use of the arts as a form of activism. Freedom Rights not only answers Lawson's call for a more dynamic, interactive history of the civil rights movement, but it also helps redefine the field.

Author : Jennifer Helgren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780813575827

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American Girls and Global Responsibility by Jennifer Helgren Pdf

American Girls and Global Responsibility brings together insights from Cold War culture studies, girls’ studies, and the history of gender and militarization to shed new light on how age and gender work together to form categories of citizenship. Jennifer Helgren argues that a new internationalist girl citizenship took root in the country in the years following World War II in youth organizations such as Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts, YWCA Y-Teens, schools, and even magazines like Seventeen. She shows the particular ways that girls’ identities and roles were configured, and reveals the links between internationalist youth culture, mainstream U.S. educational goals, and the U.S. government in creating and marketing that internationalist girl, thus shaping the girls’ sense of responsibilities as citizens.

Author : Katharine T. Corbett
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1883982308

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In Her Place by Katharine T. Corbett Pdf

This new addition to the popular guidebook series explores women's experiences and the impact of their activities on the history and landscape of St. Louis. When the city was founded, most St. Louisans believed that "a woman's place is in the home," in the house of her father, husband, or master. Over the years, women pushed out the boundaries of their lives into the public arena, and in doing so they changed the face of St. Louis. In Her Place is a guide to the changing definition of a woman's place in St. Louis, beginning with the colonial period and ending with the 1960s. Each chapter explores the experiences of women during a specific time period and identifies the sites of some of their public activities on a map of the city created from historical sources. Along the way, readers will meet such significant St. Louis women as Harriet Scott, Susan Blow, Edna Gellhorn, and Philippine Duchesne and learn about the activities of the Ladies' Union Aid Society, the Sisters of Charity, the League of Women Voters, and the Harper Married Ladies' Club. The book also includes four tours of the St. Louis region addressing the themes of the book and identifying significant buildings, homes, and other key sites. Current photographs will help readers locate the sites on detailed maps. An up-to-date bibliography and resource listing make this an invaluable guide for anyone interested in studying the history of women in the region.