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AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Female responses to urbanization in Northern Rhodesia: the establishment of women's church communities in the Copperbelt from the 1930s onwards
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62. Copper and Migrants: Towards a social history of industrialisation and social change in central Africa 1890-1990
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| Paper ID | 623 |
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Hinfelaar, Marja
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No paper submitted
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| Abstract | The White Father's refusal to open up missions in the Copperbelt in the 1930s, did not deter Bemba-speaking Catholic migrant families to establish urban congregations. In this paper I want to address the response of these religious communities to social change, in particular to avenues which opened up to women (employment, education and new forms of organization). Despite the existence of a body of literature concerning the socio-economic and political role of urban women in Zambia, there has been little interest in women's and men's Christian identity. |
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