"A Position of Usefulness": Gendering History of Girls' Education in Colonial Hong Kong (1850s-1890s)

Autor/in	Chiu, Patricia Pok-kwan
Titel	"A Position of Usefulness": Gendering History of Girls' Education in Colonial Hong Kong (1850s-1890s)
Quelle	In: History of Education, 37 (2008) 6, S.789-805 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
Schlagwörter	Females; Foreign Countries; Sexual Identity; Womens Education; Foreign Policy; Educational History; Religious Education; Christianity; Race; Social Class; Educational Policy; Educational Practices; Sex Role; Residential Care; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Ausland; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Außenpolitik; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Christentum; Rasse; Abstammung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungspraxis; Geschlechterrolle; Hongkong
Abstract	Girls' education has been considered a site of struggle where ideals of femininity and domesticity are translated into curricula and practices that seek to shape and regulate. In colonial Hong Kong, British mission societies had a significant share in providing girls' education, which was predominantly in the hands of European missionaries in the nineteenth century. The dual mission of evangelising and civilising colonial subjects in the Victorian era of empire expansion constituted a pertinent focus of inquiry in the writing of history of girls' education. Drawing on selected texts on missionary literature and government reports, this article examines in what ways a domestic ideology framed within evangelical beliefs and the imperial gaze interplayed with the politics of race and class in shaping girls' education. It challenges the presumed impartiality in education policies and practices concerning both sexes, and discusses women's agency in re-defining identities and boundaries in a colonial society. (Contains 3 figures and 78 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10