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DeSmither, Carol Marie.

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From calling to career: Work and professional identity among American women missionaries to China, 1900-1950.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From calling to career: Work and professional identity among American women missionaries to China, 1900-1950./
Author:	DeSmither, Carol Marie.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1987,
Description:	204 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-04, Section: A, page: 9570.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International49-04A.
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8808675

From calling to career: Work and professional identity among American women missionaries to China, 1900-1950.
DeSmither, Carol Marie.

From calling to career: Work and professional identity among American women missionaries to China, 1900-1950. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1987 - 204 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-04, Section: A, page: 9570.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 1987.

From the 1880s through the 1920s the pioneer generations of college educated American women left their imprint on American society, primarily through their interest in undertaking professional roles and responsibilities. During this period, the "women's professions" became prominent within the spectrum of new professions generated by an industrializing economy.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sociology.

From calling to career: Work and professional identity among American women missionaries to China, 1900-1950.
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520 $a From the 1880s through the 1920s the pioneer generations of college educated American women left their imprint on American society, primarily through their interest in undertaking professional roles and responsibilities. During this period, the "women's professions" became prominent within the spectrum of new professions generated by an industrializing economy.
520 $a Theories purporting to explain sex segregation in the professions emphasize the discriminatory treatment which kept women out of the "male-dominated," "prestigious" professions. Women's professions are represented as the semi-professions which women entered by default. The position taken in this thesis is that theories based on practices of discrimination against working class women or against the general category of "working women" have been uncritically applied to the women's professions. This view of women's professional work fails to consider the personal and social goals of educated women, the constructive vision that went into developing new forms of professional work, and the non-economic rewards women derived from working independently of established institutions. There is thus an important relationship between the opening of higher education to women in the nineteenth century, the development of career goals and ambitions in women, and the development of distinctive professions, entered chiefly by women.
520 $a Educated women were a new status group in American society. They differed in significant ways from previous generations of women, from the majority of their female contemporaries who did not pursue higher education, and from men. This study looks at a selected group of missionary women as one category of American women who typified the "new woman" and the emergent professional woman: highly educated, declining to marry early, if at all, and seeking to make or to find a serious commitment in some area of paid work. What these women wanted to accomplish through their professional undertakings, and what rewards they sought, were the questions put to the data.
520 $a Primary sources for the study include interviews from the interdisciplinary China Missionaries Oral History Project, manuscript collections of the personal papers of women missionaries deposited at the University of Oregon, Smith College, and Radcliffe College, and personal histories published by women missionaries.
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