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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2014
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Mission studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 418-442 |
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African American
missionary women
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South Africa
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