@article{fdi:010072502,
  title = {"{F}or good, {G}od, and the {E}mpire" : {F}rench {F}ranciscan sisters in {E}thiopia 1896-1937},
  author = {{G}uidi, {P}ierre},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{I}n 1897, four {F}rench {F}ranciscan sisters arrived in {E}thiopia, having been summoned there by the {C}apuchin missionaries. {I}n 1925, they ran an orphanage, a dispensary, a leper colony and 10 schools with 350 girl students. {T}he students were freed slaves, orphans and upper-class {E}thiopian and {E}uropean girls. {A}fter providing a brief background to the relations between the {E}thiopian government and the missionaries, this article describes the general activities of the {S}isters, the importance they dedicated to education, and their religious and political motives. {I}n the second part, it analyses the sociological backgrounds of the female students and the way in which education intersected with gender, class and race. {T}hird, it reconstructs the multiple power relations within which the {S}isters' educational work was embedded. {F}inally, it demonstrates how schooling girls in a class-based manner - in conformity with the {F}ranciscan {S}isters' perceptions about what lower-class and upper-class women should be - enabled them to secure relations with {E}thiopian political elites. {T}hese relations both benefited the {E}thiopian elites and furthered the cause of {F}rench imperialism.},
  keywords = {{E}thiopia ; {F}rench women missionaries ; girls' education ; class ; reproduction ; {F}rench imperialism ; {ETHIOPIE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{H}istory of {E}ducation},
  volume = {47},
  numero = {3},
  pages = {384--398},
  ISSN = {0046-760{X}},
  year = {2018},
  DOI = {10.1080/0046760x.2018.1427284},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010072502},
}