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Women, mission and church in Uganda : ethnographic encounters in an age of imperialism, 1895-1960s /

Dimock, Elizabeth,

Women, mission and church in Uganda : ethnographic encounters in an age of imperialism, 1895-1960s / Elizabeth Dimock. - xiv, 212 pages ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in modern British history ; v 16 . - Routledge studies in modern British history ; v 16. .

Includes index.

Part I: Imperial awakenings -- Women, the church missionary society and imperialism -- "In journeyings oft": missionary journeys to and aro und Uganda at the end of the nineteenth century -- Part II: Arrivals -- Welcome encounters: early relations with Ugandans -- Female missionari es and moral authority: a case study from Toro -- Part III: Mission and church -- Ugandan women and the church: generational change -- The exp erience of Ugandan women in mission and church organisations -- Trainin g for motherhood: the Mothers' Union -- Part IV: Tensions within -- A C hristian women's protest in Buganda in 1931 -- Tensions within the Ugan da Mission: gender and patriarchy.

9781138228344 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781315392745 (ebook)

2016-048339


Church Missionary Society. Uganda Mission -- History.


Women missionaries-- Social conditions-- Uganda-- 20th century.
Women-- Social conditions-- Uganda-- 20th century.
Missions, British-- History-- Uganda-- 20th century.

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