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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Main Author: Cooke, Claire (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Mission studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 418-442
Further subjects:B African American missionary women photography clothing power South Africa
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