Women and missions : past and present : anthropological and historical perceptions / edited by Fiona Bowie, Deborah Kirkwood, and Shirley Ardener.

Introduction : reclaiming women's presence / Fiona Bowie
Protestant missionary women : wives and spinsters / Deborah Kirkwood
"The missing link" : the recruitment of women missionaries in some English evangelical missionary societies in the nineteenth century / Peter Williams
Wanted
earnest, self-sacrificing women for service in South Africa : nineteenth-century recruitment of single women to Protestant missions / Cecillie Swaisland
"God and nature intended you for a missionary's wife" : Mary Hill, Jane Eyre and other missionary women in the 1840s / Valentine Cunningham
Were women a special case? / Adrian Hastings
From heathen kraal to Christian home : Anglican mission education and African Christian girls, 1850-1900 / Modupe Labode
The elusive Christian family : missionary attempts to define women's roles. Case studies from Cameroon / Fiona Bowie
Mission impact on women in colonial Kenya / Tabitha Kanogo
Mary Ann Cooke to Mother Teresa : Christian missionary women and the Indian response / Aparna Basu
Does Christianity empower women? : the case of the Anaguta of central Nigeria / Elizabeth Isichei
Catholic missionaries and Andean women : mismatching views on gender and creation / Sarah Lund Skar
These Catholic sisters are all mamas! : celibacy and the metaphor of maternity / Joan F. Burke.