Capping Power? Clothing and the Female Body in African Methodist Episcopal Mission Photographs
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Claire Cooke
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
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. 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.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2014
توصيف ظاهري
418-442
عنوان
Mission Studies
شماره جلد
31/3
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1573-3831
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اصطلاح موضوعی
African American
اصطلاح موضوعی
clothing
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
History of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
missionary women
اصطلاح موضوعی
photography
اصطلاح موضوعی
power
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion & Society
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social Sciences
اصطلاح موضوعی
South Africa
اصطلاح موضوعی
Theology and World Christianity
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