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Reeves-Ellington, Barbara, 1949-

Domestic frontiers gender, reform, and American interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East / [electronic resource] : Barbara Reeves-Ellington. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (xvi, 214 pages :) illustrations ;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Home as the Focus of Women's Civilizing Mission -- Missionary Families and the Contested Concept of Home -- Education, Conversion, and Bulgarian Orthodox Nationalism -- The Mission Press and Bulgarian Domestic Reform -- Unconventional Couples : Gender, Race, and Power in Mission Politics -- The Constantinople Home.

ISBN: 9781613762233 1613762232

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Home--Political aspects--History.--Turkey
Home--Political aspects--History.--Balkan Peninsula
Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
Protestant churches--Missions--History.
Missions, American--History.--Turkey
Missions, American--History.--Balkan Peninsula
Women missionaries--History.--Turkey
Women missionaries--History.--Balkan Peninsula

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Turkey--Race relations--History.
Balkan Peninsula--Race relations--History.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BV2410 / .R44 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 266/.02373056