The Making of Manhood among Swedish Missionaries in China and Mongolia, c.1890-c.1914

‘It is Not Good for the Man to Be Alone?’ Irish Protestant Missionary Bachelorhood and Changes in Missionary Marriage Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century

“…13 In his discussion of Swedish working-class missionary masculinity, Eric Sidenvall argues that pre-mission marriage to a respectable, middle-class woman was an important aspect of missionary men's 'self-making', a process by which men consciously appropriated middle-class lifestyles in order to move up the social scale. 14 This paper shows that while the QIM upheld marriage as the ideal state for its working-class employees, marriages took place after several years of bachelor work on the field.…”