Ideal girls for Christian internationalism: the YWCA in early twentieth-century South Asia.
This article examines the role of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in constructing the terms of political engagement for young Christian women in South Asia. It focuses on a periodical called The Young Women of India and Ceylon, published between 1908 and 1916, which typically carried...
| Publicado en: | Social History Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 17 - 43 |
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