TY - JOUR

T1 - Review: Angharad Eyre, Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century: Jane Eyre’s Missionary Sisters

AU - Burke, Tristan

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - Distinguishing between the textual figure of the 'female missionary' and the writing of real 'missionary women (p. 19), Eyre's book charts the pervasive influence of female missionary narratives. [...]active work and theological thought were suppressed in favour of meek selfsacrifice. While she is sceptical of second-wave feminism's rejection of religion, she retains notions of 'empowerment', 'authority' and 'agency' as key criteria for reading women's writing. At the end of the book, there is a brief discussion of missionary '[w] omen's construction of the "heathen" woman as victim (p.216) in order to produce their own authority.

AB - Distinguishing between the textual figure of the 'female missionary' and the writing of real 'missionary women (p. 19), Eyre's book charts the pervasive influence of female missionary narratives. [...]active work and theological thought were suppressed in favour of meek selfsacrifice. While she is sceptical of second-wave feminism's rejection of religion, she retains notions of 'empowerment', 'authority' and 'agency' as key criteria for reading women's writing. At the end of the book, there is a brief discussion of missionary '[w] omen's construction of the "heathen" woman as victim (p.216) in order to produce their own authority.

M3 - Book/Film/Article review

VL - 37

SP - 77

EP - 81

JO - The Gaskell Journal

JF - The Gaskell Journal

SN - 2041-8582

ER -