Capping Power? Clothing and the Female Body in African Methodist Episcopal Mission Photographs
In this article, I argue that the introduction of a uniform for female converts was a crucial factor in maintaining power dynamics in African Methodist Episcopal missionary work conducted in South Africa between 1900 and 1940. This relationship, I suggest, is epitomized in photographs from the missi...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Verificar disponibilidad: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2014
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Mission studies
Año: 2014, Volumen: 31, Número: 3, Páginas: 418-442 |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
African American
missionary women
photography
clothing
power
South Africa
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| Acceso en línea: |
Volltext (Publisher) |
| Sumario: | In this article, I argue that the introduction of a uniform for female converts was a crucial factor in maintaining power dynamics in African Methodist Episcopal missionary work conducted in South Africa between 1900 and 1940. This relationship, I suggest, is epitomized in photographs from the mission field. Through studying the ways missionaries photographed women, I am able to critique how clothing expressed inherent, imbalanced power relations between missionaries and converts. I thus build on existing literature concerning the relationship between clothing and the indigenous female body, through an examination of clothing as a marker of status within the patriarchal mission family construct. |
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| Descripción Física: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Obras secundarias: | In: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341359 |
