Women’s first institutional projects bankrolled the very male board that had championed them.

Evidence

It was no coincidence, then, that the first project of the Woman’s Convention enabled the work of the Foreign Mission Board. In 1901 the women supported the board’s effort to send Spelman graduate Emma Delaney to Africa; they sent money to Delaney for her work in Chiradzulo in Blantyre, British Central Africa (now Malawi). In 1902 the women supplied funds to build a brick mission house for her. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 721

Categorization

• XREF: This reciprocity — men granting women space, women funding men’s missions — is a trade mechanism of respectability: internal compliance purchased institutional foothold. — connects to: Male leaders exploited women’s internal disputes to justify male control — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 753; Women’s organizational self-determination existed within the denomination alongside male boards — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 726

Broader Connections

• Women’s organizational self-determination existed within the denomination alongside male boards #complicates (0.80) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 726
• Male leaders exploited women’s internal disputes to justify male control #expands (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 753