This book offers a detailed study of how the practices and notions of the Basel Mission regarding women and gender were received, conceptualised and negotiated in local terms in pre and early colonial Ghanaian societies, 1843-1885.

Ulrike Sill, Dr.phil.des. (2007) in History, University of Basel, is research assistant for African History at the University of Basel. She has published on women and the history of the Basel Mission and Ghana.