Divine Domesticities. Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific

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1 Divine Domesticities Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific

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3 Divine Domesticities Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific Edited by Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly

4 Published by ANU Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia This title is also available online at National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Author: Title: ISBN: Subjects: Other Authors/Contributors: Choi, Hyaeweol, author. Divine domesticities : Christian paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific / Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly (paperback) (ebook) Indigenous women--asia Indigenous women--pacific Area Missions--Asia Missions--Pacific Area Jolly, Margaret author. Dewey Number: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover photos: Top Missionary home interior, from the Reverend Corwin & Nellie Taylor Collection, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Used with permission. Bottom Left to right at the quilting horses: Adelaide Gifford carding wool; Mrs. Milia Kaiawe, Mrs Leialoha Kanoho, Mrs. Akao Lock, Mrs. Louisa Malina, Mrs. Kalei Montgomery, working collectively on an appliqué quilt, photographer, William Junokichi Senda, Used with permission from the Kaua i Museum. Cover design and layout by ANU Press Printed by Griffin Press This edition 2014 ANU Press

5 Contents List of Illustrations.... vii Preface and Acknowledgements.... xi Paradoxes of Domesticity: Missionary Encounters in the Making of Christian Homes in Asia and the Pacific...1 Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly Part One Permeability and Paradox: Revisiting Domestic and Public in Asia and the Pacific 1. The Missionary Home as a Pulpit: Domestic Paradoxes in Early Twentieth-Century Korea Hyaeweol Choi 2. Missionaries and A Better Baby Movement in Colonial Korea Sonja M. Kim 3. All Other Loves Excelling: Mary Kidder, Wakamatsu Shizuko and Modern Marriage in Meiji Japan Rebecca Copeland 4. Raising the Standards of Family Life: Ginling Women s College and Christian Social Service in Republican China Helen M. Schneider Part Two Sacred and Secular Genealogies: Christian Missions and States Colonial and Contemporary 5. Sacred Genealogies of Development: Christianity and the Indian Modern Kalpana Ram 6. Ol Meri Bilong Wok (Hard-working Women): Women, Work and Domesticity in Papua New Guinea Jemima Mowbray 7. Tired for nothing? Women, Chiefs, and the Domestication of Customary Authority in Solomon Islands Debra McDougall

6 Part Three The Architectonics of Home and Emotion: New Christian Families in Conversion Experiences 8. Agency and Salvation in Christian Child Rescue in Colonial India: Preena and Amy Carmichael Annie McCarthy 9. Deviant Domesticities and Sexualised Childhoods: Prostitutes, Eunuchs and the Limits of the State Child Rescue Mission in Colonial India Jessica Hinchy 10. A New Family: Domesticity and Sentiment among Chinese and Western Women at Shanghai s Door of Hope Sue Gronewold 11. From Open Fale to Mission Houses: Negotiating the Boundaries of Domesticity in Samoa Latu Latai 12. Paradoxical Intimacies: The Christian Creation of the Huli Domestic Sphere Holly Wardlow Part Four On and Beneath the Skin: Embodiment and Sensuous Agency 13. Paradoxical Performances: Cruel Constraints and Christian Emancipation in th -Century Missionary Representations of Chinese Women and Girls Shih-Wen Sue Chen 14. Bibles, Baseball and Butterfly Sleeves: Filipina Women and American Protestant Missions, Laura R. Prieto 15. The Materiality of Missionisation in Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea Anna-Karina Hermkens 16. A Saturated History of Christianity and Cloth in Oceania Margaret Jolly Contributors Bibliography