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6%OFFPhyllis M. Martin - Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville: Mothers and Sisters in Troubled Times - 9780253220554 - V9780253220554
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Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville: Mothers and Sisters in Troubled Times

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Description for Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville: Mothers and Sisters in Troubled Times Paperback. Explores the changing relationship between women and the Catholic Church from the establishment of the first mission stations in the late 1880s onwards. This title emphasizes the social identity of mothers and the practice of motherhood, a prime concern of Congolese women, as they made sense of their place within the Church. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 b&w photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; HRCC7; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 15. Weight in Grams: 459.

Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville explores the changing relationship between women and the Catholic Church from the establishment of the first mission stations in the late 1880s to the present. Phyllis M. Martin emphasizes the social identity of mothers and the practice of motherhood, a prime concern of Congolese women, as they individually and collectively made sense of their place within the Church. Martin traces women's early resistance to missionary overtures and church schools, and follows their relationship with missionary Sisters, their later embrace of church-sponsored education, their participation in popular Catholicism, and the formation of women's fraternities. As they drew ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253220554
SKU
V9780253220554
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Ref
99-50

About Phyllis M. Martin
Phyllis M. Martin is Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University Bloomington. She is editor (with Patrick O'Meara) of Africa (IUP, 1995) and author of Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville.

Reviews for Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville: Mothers and Sisters in Troubled Times
This reviewer finds Martin's book comprehensive, fascinating, informative, and well-written; it is a useful resource for history scholars and students as well as those interested in understanding the colonial and post-colonial history of African women in Congo-Brazzaville . . .V.109.437
Dominic Pasura
University of Huddersfield
[A]n excellently researched book . . . Historians, students, and scholars of ... Read more

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