عنوان

Race Rescue

شماره

LA127160

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Race Rescue

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Richard Eves

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This paper examines Methodist missionary discourse in Papua at the turn of the nineteenth century, locating two themes: what I call a pathology of desire, to be found in the polemical missionary discourses directed at sexuality, immorality and licentiousness, and a pathology of culture, to be found in their polemical discourses against abortion, infanticide and child-rearing practices. Together, these pathologies were seen as the main causes of population decline. The two discourses, constantly at play, produce a doubled image of Papuan women - the fallen woman and the bad mother - which, it was considered, necessitated the intervention of "a civilising mission." This involved race rescue - the isolation of those thought vulnerable (children and young women) on the mission station, away from the dangers of the villages, at the same time instilling in them their own notions of sexual morality, and above all the training of Papuan women in European models of motherhood and domesticity, so they would become good wives and mothers. This paper examines Methodist missionary discourse in Papua at the turn of the nineteenth century, locating two themes: what I call a pathology of desire, to be found in the polemical missionary discourses directed at sexuality, immorality and licentiousness, and a pathology of culture, to be found in their polemical discourses against abortion, infanticide and child-rearing practices. Together, these pathologies were seen as the main causes of population decline. The two discourses, constantly at play, produce a doubled image of Papuan women - the fallen woman and the bad mother - which, it was considered, necessitated the intervention of "a civilising mission." This involved race rescue - the isolation of those thought vulnerable (children and young women) on the mission station, away from the dangers of the villages, at the same time instilling in them their own notions of sexual morality, and above all the training of Papuan women in European models of motherhood and domesticity, so they would become good wives and mothers. This paper examines Methodist missionary discourse in Papua at the turn of the nineteenth century, locating two themes: what I call a pathology of desire, to be found in the polemical missionary discourses directed at sexuality, immorality and licentiousness, and a pathology of culture, to be found in their polemical discourses against abortion, infanticide and child-rearing practices. Together, these pathologies were seen as the main causes of population decline. The two discourses, constantly at play, produce a doubled image of Papuan women - the fallen woman and the bad mother - which, it was considered, necessitated the intervention of "a civilising mission." This involved race rescue - the isolation of those thought vulnerable (children and young women) on the mission station, away from the dangers of the villages, at the same time instilling in them their own notions of sexual morality, and above all the training of Papuan women in European models of motherhood and domesticity, so they would become good wives and mothers. This paper examines Methodist missionary discourse in Papua at the turn of the nineteenth century, locating two themes: what I call a pathology of desire, to be found in the polemical missionary discourses directed at sexuality, immorality and licentiousness, and a pathology of culture, to be found in their polemical discourses against abortion, infanticide and child-rearing practices. Together, these pathologies were seen as the main causes of population decline. The two discourses, constantly at play, produce a doubled image of Papuan women - the fallen woman and the bad mother - which, it was considered, necessitated the intervention of "a civilising mission." This involved race rescue - the isolation of those thought vulnerable (children and young women) on the mission station, away from the dangers of the villages, at the same time instilling in them their own notions of sexual morality, and above all the training of Papuan women in European models of motherhood and domesticity, so they would become good wives and mothers.

تاريخ نشر

2018

توصيف ظاهري

34-68

عنوان

Social Sciences and Missions

شماره جلد

31/1-2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1874-8945

اصطلاح موضوعی

depopulation

اصطلاح موضوعی

dépopulation

اصطلاح موضوعی

domesticité

اصطلاح موضوعی

domesticity

اصطلاح موضوعی

gender

اصطلاح موضوعی

genre

اصطلاح موضوعی

Methodist missionaries

اصطلاح موضوعی

Missions méthodistes

اصطلاح موضوعی

Papouasie

اصطلاح موضوعی

Papua

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Richard Eves

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/18748945-03101009

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y