Missionary Discourses of Difference

1. Introduction: Difference and Discourse in the British Empire
Esme Cleall

Part I. Families and Households: Difference and Domesticity

2. Representing Homes: Gender and Sexuality in Missionary Writing
Esme Cleall

3. Re-Making Homes: Ambiguous Encounters and Domestic Transgressions
Esme Cleall

Part II. Sickness and the Embodiment of Difference

4. Pathologising Heathenism: Discourses of Sickness and the Rise of Medical Missions
Esme Cleall

5. Illness on the Mission Station: Sickness and the Presentation of the ‘Self’
Esme Cleall

Part III. Violence and Racialisation

6. Violence and the Construction of the Other
Esme Cleall

7. Colonial Violence: Whiteness, Violence and Civilisation
Esme Cleall

8. Conclusion: Thinking with Missionaries, Thinking about Difference
Esme Cleall

Keywords: History, Asian History, African History, History of Britain and Ireland, Modern History, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of South Asia