Missionary Discourses of Difference: Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900

Abstract

Acknowledgements Introduction. Difference and Discourse in the British Empire Note on Terminology PART I: FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLDS: DIFFERENCE AND DOMESTICITY Introduction: Difference and Domesticity Representing Homes: Gender and Sexuality in Missionary Writing Re-making Homes: Ambiguous Encounters and Domestic Transgressions PART II: SICKNESS AND THE EMBODIMENT OF DIFFERENCE Introduction: Sickness and the Embodiment of Difference Pathologising Heathenism: Discourses of Sickness and the Rise of Medical Missions Illness on the Mission Station: Sickness and the Presentation of the 'Self' PART III: VIOLENCE AND DIFFERENCE Violence and the Construction of the Other Colonial Violence: Whiteness, Violence and Civilisation Conclusion

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