عنوان

Seeing Mission Work through a Gendered Lens

Number

LA127060

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Seeing Mission Work through a Gendered Lens

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Ann Ellis Pullen, Sarah Ruffing Robbins

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

Nellie Arnott, who served as a Congregational mission teacher in the highlands of Angola from 1905-1912, left a rich archival record of her personal experiences, including private diaries and publications for women's mission magazines. Her writings trace her evolving attitude toward gender roles for missionaries and for Umbundu women whom she taught. Arnott provides a highly personalized and feminized glimpse into a changing central Angola, as Portuguese authority extended into the region. As Arnott left Angola in 1912, her goal was to establish a girls' boarding school there, but, while home on furlough, she married her long-time fiancé and did not return to Africa. Her candid personal writings allow a window into the development of her own social agency and a glimpse into the lives of Umbundu women (and men) as they negotiated evolving gender roles within an environment shaped by Portuguese political control as well as Congregational mission work.

Date of Publication

2015

Physical description

288-326

Title

Social Sciences and Missions

Volume Number

28/3-4

International Standard Serial Number

1874-8945

Subject Term

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)

Subject Term

Angola

Subject Term

gender issues

Subject Term

genre

Subject Term

History of Religion

Subject Term

missions

Subject Term

Nellie Arnott

Subject Term

Religion & Society

Subject Term

Religious Studies

Subject Term

Social Sciences

Subject Term

Umbundu

Ann Ellis Pullen

Sarah Ruffing Robbins

Call Number

10.1163/18748945-02803012

Electronic name

p

[Article]

275578

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