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Women, mission and church in Uganda : ethnographic encounters in an age of imperialism, 1895-1960s / Elizabeth Dimock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dimock, Elizabeth, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in modern British history ; v. 16.
- Routledge studies in modern British history ; 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church Missionary Society. Uganda Mission--History.
- Church Missionary Society.
- Church Missionary Society. Uganda Mission.
- Women missionaries--Uganda--Social conditions--20th century.
- Women missionaries.
- Women--Uganda--Social conditions--20th century.
- Women.
- Missions, British--Uganda--History--20th century.
- Missions, British.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- Uganda.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 212 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- Contents:
- 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
- Part II: Arrivals
- Welcome encounters: early relations with Ugandans
- Female missionaries and moral authority: a case study from Toro
- Part III: Mission and church
- Ugandan women and the church: generational change
- The experience of Ugandan women in mission and church organisations
- Training for motherhood: the Mothers' Union
- Part IV: Tensions within
- A Christian women's protest in Buganda in 1931
- Tensions within the Uganda Mission: gender and patriarchy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781138228344
- 1138228346
- OCLC:
- 961266686
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