| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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Book Review

Women and the White Man's God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field. By Myra Rutherdale. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002. xxx + 194 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $85.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.)

The important role played by women in evangelizing aboriginal peoples in the Canadian and American West has received much deserved attention in recent years and deserves ongoing analysis by those interested in engendering religious history. Anglican deaconesses, Catholic sisters, and the wives of Protestant missionaries who labored among various aboriginal peoples broke down masculine and feminine stereotypes and minimized notions of separate spheres. For many of these women the frontier of settlement and empire was a zone of liberation prompting the question, "Did they see mission work as a calling, or were they attracted to it because it offered adventure" (p. xiii)?

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