Amerikalı kadınların harici misyon hareketi: Protestan misyonlarda "Havva'nın kutsal kurtarıcıyla yaptığı işbirliği"

This thesis aims to depict American women?s ?indispensable? participation inthe United States? foreign mission movement. The emphasis in this thesis is onmissionary wives and single missionary women both in mission fields and in themissionary societies controlled in the United States. The concept of separate spheresof male and female influence forms the center point of this thesis and theparticipation of women in the foreign mission movement is discussed from thisperspective. It was the divine sanction, the religious service that stimulatedAmerican women to enter the mission work in the 19th century. Although thestarting point did not embrace a feminist frame, the process of implementation didlead American women into public roles independent of male influence. In the nameof this accomplishment, this thesis aims to explore what many historians haveneglected to analyze. American missionary women, in the United States or in theforeign mission lands, created a new professional career for educated women, brokethe bondage of the domestic sphere, expanded the involvement of women in culturaland political interaction, and represented the American woman to the whole world.Keywords: 19th Century American Woman, American Missionaries, Evangelism,Woman?s Boards, American Women?s Foreign Mission Movement, The Doctrine ofSeperate Spheres.