1st Edition
Women, Mission and Church in Uganda Ethnographic encounters in an age of imperialism, 1895-1960s
By Elizabeth Dimock
Copyright 2017
228 Pages
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Routledge
226 Pages
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Routledge
226 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume recounts the experiences of female missionaries who worked in Uganda in and after 1895. It examines the personal stories of those women who were faced with a stubbornly masculine administration representative of a wider masculine administrative network in Westminster and other outposts of the British Empire. Encounters with Ugandan women and men of a range of ethnicities, the gender... Read more
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
A Note on Orthography and Semantics
A Note on Primary Sources
Introduction
Part I: Imperial Awakenings
- Women, the Church Missionary Society and Imperialism
- ‘In Journeyings Oft’: Missionary Journeys to and around Uganda at the end of the Nineteenth Century
- Welcome encounters: Early relations with Ugandans
- Female Missionaries and Moral Authority: A case study from Toro
- Ugandan Women and the Church: Generational change
- The experience of Ugandan Women in Mission and Church Organisations
- Training for Motherhood: the Mothers’ Union
- A Christian Women’s protest in Buganda in 1931
- Tensions within the Uganda Mission: Gender and Patriarchy
Part II: Arrivals
Part III: Mission and Church
Part IV: Tensions Within
Conclusion
Biography
Elizabeth Dimock is Honorary Research Fellow in the History Programme at La Trobe University, Australia.
