ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the introduction of Western ideals and methods concerning motherhood and the ethnographic encounter of the colonial period. Formal teaching on motherhood and domesticity came as a second phase of missionary work with women, after the turn of the century. The teaching of a domestic sphere role was central to the curriculum of girls' schools and the essence of Church teaching after the turn of the century. The new emphasis developed in different areas of Mission work, in the curriculum of Gayaza and other girls' boarding schools, in medical work, and through the Mothers' Union (MU). The history of the Uganda Mission in the early years of the twentieth century in Uganda embodies discussion of women and motherhood, the production and rearing of children, and anomalies in reproductive health. Through the early decades of the century the voices of Christian women are hidden behind the writing of female or male missionaries, and the silences of the archives.
