Women, Mission and Church in Uganda: Ethnographic encounters in an age of imperialism, 1895-1960s

by Elizabeth Dimock

Overview

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 relations in those societies and relations between the British Protectorate administration and Ugandan Christian women are all explored in detail. The analysis is offset by the author’s experience of working in Uganda at the close of British Protectorate status in the 1960s, employed by the Uganda Government Education Department in a school founded by the Uganda Mission.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315392721
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/21/2017
Series:	Routledge Studies in Modern British History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	212
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Elizabeth Dimock is Honorary Research Fellow in the History Programme at La Trobe University, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

A Note on Orthography and Semantics

A Note on Primary Sources

Introduction

Part I: Imperial Awakenings

1. Women, the Church Missionary Society and Imperialism
2. ‘In Journeyings Oft’: Missionary Journeys to and around Uganda at the end of the Nineteenth Century

Part II: Arrivals

3. Welcome encounters: Early relations with Ugandans
4. Female Missionaries and Moral Authority: A case study from Toro

Part III: Mission and Church

5. Ugandan Women and the Church: Generational change
6. The experience of Ugandan Women in Mission and Church Organisations
7. Training for Motherhood: the Mothers’ Union

Part IV: Tensions Within

8. A Christian Women’s protest in Buganda in 1931
9. Tensions within the Uganda Mission: Gender and Patriarchy

Conclusion