Deborah Gaitskell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 176578 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Deborah Gaitskell |
| PRENOMES | Deborah |
| SOBRENOME | Gaitskell |
| ASSINATURA | GAITSKELL D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 137 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
An interview with Deborah Gaitskell
South Africa and Beyond
Born in Basutoland in 1904, Seth Mokitimi crossed linguistic and regional barriers in his education, teaching career and ordained ministry in South Africa. As the long-serving housemaster and then chaplain at Healdtown, premier Methodist mission institution in the Eastern Cape, he was also drawn in the 1940s into advocating the crossing of the racial divide. He spoke out against segregation and then apartheid, asserting the undivided, multiracial…
The Native School that Caused all the Trouble
Feminising Faith
Written in response to the conference organisers’ explicit invitation, this paper combines personalised reflection on a scholarly journey with a broader historiographical overview. The 1970s seemed unpropitious times for researching women of faith in South Africa. Neo-Marxist concerns with rural political economy and urban workers’ struggles with capital gave little space or validity to female spirituality in the mission encounter. What wider per…
Gender, Power and Voice in South African Anglicanism
Compared with the Nonconformists, the anglican Church in South africa employed a surprisingly large number of single women missionaries in evangelistic, educational and medical work among blacks in the first half of the twentieth century. Looking at three watershed moments, this article offers a preliminary assessment of the organisation which they set up for mutual learning and support. It analyses the report of the founding conference of the So…
Transnational Biblewomen
‘Doing a missionary hard work … in the black hole of calcutta’
In 1917, the typical teacher in black schools in South Africa was supposedly a girl of nineteen with one year of training beyond the elementary syllabus. Lily Moya seemingly confirmed the stereotype in 1950, congratulating herself at sixteen for 'doing a Missionary hard work' in a Transkei primary school, while not really enjoying teaching 'in the black hole of Calcutta'. The article explores whether such youthful desperation was by then more aty…
‘Doing a missionary hard work … in the black hole of Calcutta’
In 1917, the typical teacher in black schools in South Africa was supposedly a girl of nineteen with one year of training beyond the elementary syllabus. Lily Moya seemingly confirmed the stereotype in 1950, congratulating herself at sixteen for ‘doing a Missionary hard work’ in a Transkei primary school, while not really enjoying teaching ‘in the black hole of Calcutta’. The article explores whether such youthful desperation was by then more aty…
Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges
In the late 1960s, the South African Anglican Church set up a new women's organisation, the Anglican Women's Fellowship (AWF). With strong roots in the Cape and Natal, the AWF aimed to be more inclusive of all churchwomen than the international Mothers' Union (MU) where, at that time, membership was still closed to divorcees and unmarried mothers. MU locally had also become an African stronghold, which may have reinforced the qualms of white and …
The Imperial Tie
(2002). The Imperial Tie: Obstacle or Asset for South Africa's Women Suffragists before 1930? South African Historical Journal: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 1-23
Interpreting Contemporary Christianity
"INTERPRETING CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIANITY: GLOBAL PROCESSES AND LOCAL IDENTITIES. REPORT ON A CONFERENCE ORGANIZED BY THE CURRENTS IN WORLD CHRISTIANITY PROJECT, HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, 3-7 JULY 2001" published on 01 Jan 2002 by Brill
Whose heartland and which periphery? christian women crossing South Africa's racial divide in the Twentieth Century
This article focuses on black and white Christian women's groups in the Anglican and Methodist churches in twentieth-century South Africa. While the Mothers' Union was exported from the metropolitan heartland to the colonial Anglican periphery as a nominally multiracial organisation, Methodist women set up racially divided women's groups, which, nevertheless, intersected in various ways. By the 1960s, Africans dominated the Mothers' Union, and wh…
Special Issue for Shula Marks
Zion and Pentecost
This Matter of Women Is Getting Very Bad
Shorter notice. Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853. P Scully/Tanu Women
Journal Article Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853. P Scully/TANU Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tananyikan Nationalism, 1955-1965. S Geiger Get access D Gaitskell D Gaitskell Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 461, April 2000, …
Hot Meetings and Hard Kraals
Whereas women's prayer groups are a well-known strength of African Christianity in Southern Africa, the evangelistic and pastoral contribution of individual women who were not clergy wives has been under-appreciated. Echoing models from Victorian London and Indian missions, Methodism in South Africa evolved an authorised, paid form of female lay ministry via middle-aged black Biblewomen sponsored and overseen by white Women's Auxiliary groups. Th…
Hot Meetings and Hard Kraals
At least since Mia Brandel-Syrier memorably descriptionbed female prayer unions or manyanos as the oldest, largest and most enduring and cohesive of all African organisations in South Africa, group zeal of African Christian women, right across various denominations, has increasingly been recognised as a significant indigenous spiritual initiative of long standing
Female Faith and the Politics of the Personal
This article explores female religious interaction in racially divided 'colonial' South Africa through the lives of five unmarried Anglican women missionaries who worked in and around Johannesburg between 1907 and 1960. It particularly analyses the quality of their personal relationships with African women converts, colleagues and students. Deaconess Julia Gilpin, in the imperial, anglicizing post-Boer War years, encouraged devout, respectable wi…
From ‘Women and Imperialism’ to Gendering Colonialism
A Life's Mosaic
African Encounters with Domesticity
Anthropologists usually think of domesticity as the activities related to the home and the family. Such activities have complex meanings associated with the sense of space, work, gender, and power. The contributors to this interdisciplinary collection of papers examine how indigenous African notions of domesticity interact with Western notions to transform the meaning of such activities. They explore the interactions of notions of domesticity in …
Days
Books reviewed
People's War and People's Work in South Africa J. Frederikse, South Africa: A Different Kind of War (London: James Currey; Johannesburg: Ravan Press; Gweru: Mambo Press, 1986). Pp. 192. £6.95 paperback. D. Robbins and W. Hartley, Inside the Last Outpost (Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter, 1985). Pp. 198. Paperback. O. Badsha, Imijondolo: a photographic essay on forced removals in the Inanda District of South Africa (Johannesburg: Afrapix, 1985…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa
Housewives, Maids or Mothers
Early twentieth-century missionaries in South Africa invariably subscribed to an ideology of domesticity for African Christian women. Being a housewife and mother was seen as a full-time spiritual vocation. In Johannesburg, for example, women's domestic role within marriage gave point to the whole range of female mission activity. Housewifery was not only taught at special mission schools, but also in women's hostels, a girls' youth movement and …
African Encounters with Domesticity
Anthropologists usually think of domesticity as the activities related to the home and the family. Such activities have complex meanings associated with the sense of space, work, gender, and power. The contributors to this interdisciplinary collection of papers examine how indigenous African notions of domesticity interact with Western notions to transform the meaning of such activities. They explore the interactions of notions of domesticity in …
Class, race and gender
Domestic service has long been a major sector of the South African labour market, for black women particularly, but the government has only lately begun to consider stipulating minimum employment conditions in this sphere. Union formation among domestic workers on any significant scale is also only a recent phenomenon. This article takes a preliminary look at domestic service from various angles — conceptual, historical and contemporary. A new sl…
Christian compounds for girls
Compounds in the mining industry gave Rand and Kimberley capitalists a vital means of industrial and police control of their labour force, as well as enabling them “to provide amenities such as recreation and health supervision” (1), no less important for the smooth running of the mines. Local authorities adapted this idea, in open compounds for casual labourers and, as Davenport has noted, 'it was a short step from the municipal compound to the …
This Matter of Women Is Getting Very Bad
Female Faith and the Politics of the Personal
This article explores female religious interaction in racially divided 'colonial' South Africa through the lives of five unmarried Anglican women missionaries who worked in and around Johannesburg between 1907 and 1960. It particularly analyses the quality of their personal relationships with African women converts, colleagues and students. Deaconess Julia Gilpin, in the imperial, anglicizing post-Boer War years, encouraged devout, respectable wi…
Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges
In the late 1960s, the South African Anglican Church set up a new women's organisation, the Anglican Women's Fellowship (AWF). With strong roots in the Cape and Natal, the AWF aimed to be more inclusive of all churchwomen than the international Mothers' Union (MU) where, at that time, membership was still closed to divorcees and unmarried mothers. MU locally had also become an African stronghold, which may have reinforced the qualms of white and …
The Imperial Tie
(2002). The Imperial Tie: Obstacle or Asset for South Africa's Women Suffragists before 1930? South African Historical Journal: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 1-23
Whose heartland and which periphery? christian women crossing South Africa's racial divide in the Twentieth Century
This article focuses on black and white Christian women's groups in the Anglican and Methodist churches in twentieth-century South Africa. While the Mothers' Union was exported from the metropolitan heartland to the colonial Anglican periphery as a nominally multiracial organisation, Methodist women set up racially divided women's groups, which, nevertheless, intersected in various ways. By the 1960s, Africans dominated the Mothers' Union, and wh…
Hot Meetings and Hard Kraals
At least since Mia Brandel-Syrier memorably descriptionbed female prayer unions or manyanos as the oldest, largest and most enduring and cohesive of all African organisations in South Africa, group zeal of African Christian women, right across various denominations, has increasingly been recognised as a significant indigenous spiritual initiative of long standing
Christian compounds for girls
Compounds in the mining industry gave Rand and Kimberley capitalists a vital means of industrial and police control of their labour force, as well as enabling them “to provide amenities such as recreation and health supervision” (1), no less important for the smooth running of the mines. Local authorities adapted this idea, in open compounds for casual labourers and, as Davenport has noted, 'it was a short step from the municipal compound to the …
The Reminiscences of Thomas Stubbs
Class, race and gender
Domestic service has long been a major sector of the South African labour market, for black women particularly, but the government has only lately begun to consider stipulating minimum employment conditions in this sphere. Union formation among domestic workers on any significant scale is also only a recent phenomenon. This article takes a preliminary look at domestic service from various angles — conceptual, historical and contemporary. A new sl…
Housewives, Maids or Mothers
Early twentieth-century missionaries in South Africa invariably subscribed to an ideology of domesticity for African Christian women. Being a housewife and mother was seen as a full-time spiritual vocation. In Johannesburg, for example, women's domestic role within marriage gave point to the whole range of female mission activity. Housewifery was not only taught at special mission schools, but also in women's hostels, a girls' youth movement and …
Books reviewed
People's War and People's Work in South Africa J. Frederikse, South Africa: A Different Kind of War (London: James Currey; Johannesburg: Ravan Press; Gweru: Mambo Press, 1986). Pp. 192. £6.95 paperback. D. Robbins and W. Hartley, Inside the Last Outpost (Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter, 1985). Pp. 198. Paperback. O. Badsha, Imijondolo: a photographic essay on forced removals in the Inanda District of South Africa (Johannesburg: Afrapix, 1985…
The African Studies Association
THE AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Get access D. Gaitskell D. Gaitskell Hon. Secretary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 338, January 1986, Pages 125–127, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097749 Published: 01 January 1986
Southern Africa
Days
A Life's Mosaic
African Encounters with Domesticity
Anthropologists usually think of domesticity as the activities related to the home and the family. Such activities have complex meanings associated with the sense of space, work, gender, and power. The contributors to this interdisciplinary collection of papers examine how indigenous African notions of domesticity interact with Western notions to transform the meaning of such activities. They explore the interactions of notions of domesticity in …
From ‘Women and Imperialism’ to Gendering Colonialism
Shorter notice. Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853. P Scully/Tanu Women
Journal Article Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853. P Scully/TANU Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tananyikan Nationalism, 1955-1965. S Geiger Get access D Gaitskell D Gaitskell Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 461, April 2000, …
Hot Meetings and Hard Kraals
Whereas women's prayer groups are a well-known strength of African Christianity in Southern Africa, the evangelistic and pastoral contribution of individual women who were not clergy wives has been under-appreciated. Echoing models from Victorian London and Indian missions, Methodism in South Africa evolved an authorised, paid form of female lay ministry via middle-aged black Biblewomen sponsored and overseen by white Women's Auxiliary groups. Th…
Hot Meetings and Hard Kraals
At least since Mia Brandel-Syrier memorably descriptionbed female prayer unions or manyanos as the oldest, largest and most enduring and cohesive of all African organisations in South Africa, group zeal of African Christian women, right across various denominations, has increasingly been recognised as a significant indigenous spiritual initiative of long standing
Female Faith and the Politics of the Personal
This article explores female religious interaction in racially divided 'colonial' South Africa through the lives of five unmarried Anglican women missionaries who worked in and around Johannesburg between 1907 and 1960. It particularly analyses the quality of their personal relationships with African women converts, colleagues and students. Deaconess Julia Gilpin, in the imperial, anglicizing post-Boer War years, encouraged devout, respectable wi…
Special Issue for Shula Marks
Zion and Pentecost
This Matter of Women Is Getting Very Bad
The Imperial Tie
(2002). The Imperial Tie: Obstacle or Asset for South Africa's Women Suffragists before 1930? South African Historical Journal: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 1-23
Interpreting Contemporary Christianity
"INTERPRETING CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIANITY: GLOBAL PROCESSES AND LOCAL IDENTITIES. REPORT ON A CONFERENCE ORGANIZED BY THE CURRENTS IN WORLD CHRISTIANITY PROJECT, HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, 3-7 JULY 2001" published on 01 Jan 2002 by Brill
Whose heartland and which periphery? christian women crossing South Africa's racial divide in the Twentieth Century
This article focuses on black and white Christian women's groups in the Anglican and Methodist churches in twentieth-century South Africa. While the Mothers' Union was exported from the metropolitan heartland to the colonial Anglican periphery as a nominally multiracial organisation, Methodist women set up racially divided women's groups, which, nevertheless, intersected in various ways. By the 1960s, Africans dominated the Mothers' Union, and wh…
‘Doing a missionary hard work … in the black hole of calcutta’
In 1917, the typical teacher in black schools in South Africa was supposedly a girl of nineteen with one year of training beyond the elementary syllabus. Lily Moya seemingly confirmed the stereotype in 1950, congratulating herself at sixteen for 'doing a Missionary hard work' in a Transkei primary school, while not really enjoying teaching 'in the black hole of Calcutta'. The article explores whether such youthful desperation was by then more aty…
‘Doing a missionary hard work … in the black hole of Calcutta’
In 1917, the typical teacher in black schools in South Africa was supposedly a girl of nineteen with one year of training beyond the elementary syllabus. Lily Moya seemingly confirmed the stereotype in 1950, congratulating herself at sixteen for ‘doing a Missionary hard work’ in a Transkei primary school, while not really enjoying teaching ‘in the black hole of Calcutta’. The article explores whether such youthful desperation was by then more aty…
Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges
In the late 1960s, the South African Anglican Church set up a new women's organisation, the Anglican Women's Fellowship (AWF). With strong roots in the Cape and Natal, the AWF aimed to be more inclusive of all churchwomen than the international Mothers' Union (MU) where, at that time, membership was still closed to divorcees and unmarried mothers. MU locally had also become an African stronghold, which may have reinforced the qualms of white and …
Transnational Biblewomen
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