Woman's Work for Woman: Gendered Print Culture in American Mission Movement Narratives

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Year of Publication
2006
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Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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251-80
Publisher
University of Wisconsin
City
Madison, WI
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Discusses the use of print by female missionaries and supporters as a means to stay connected, foster unity of purpose, and promote the activities of the missions.  Focus on the magazine "Woman's Work for Women" published by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Societies of the Presbyterian Church.