Forlorn daughters? The role of social motherhood in transnational African Methodist Episcopal missionary women networks, 1900–1940s
| Autor: | Claire Cooke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Cultural Studies
African american History Higher education Black african 060106 history of social sciences business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts 050701 cultural studies Power dynamics Political science Political Science and International Relations Rhetoric 0601 history and archaeology business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Safundi. 19:36-54 |
| ISSN: | 1543-1304 1753-3171 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17533171.2018.1404748 |
| Popis: | This paper examines the transnational networks formed between women who were part of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) within the United States (US) and its South African missionary societies during the early twentieth century. From the outset, these networks enabled South African women to gain tertiary education in the US, but were nonetheless entrenched in unequal power dynamics. US-based women considered themselves metaphorical mothers to the female South African members, portraying the African women as daughters in need of social and financial support. US AME women were complex role models for Black African women who could not reasonably maintain the lifestyle enjoyed by many AME missionary women. Often, however, South African women appear to have utilized these unequal power dynamics, embracing the rhetoric of being “forlorn daughters” of Africa to maintain the AME’s support. Nevertheless, these networks helped sustain both US and South African women’s participation within the AME ... |
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