![]() Comparisons with other churchwomen's organisations-the (black) Methodist Manyano and (white) Women's Auxiliary as well as the MU-will be drawn to highlight what is distinctive about AWF and its response to social change in contemporary South Africa. Based on some documentary sources and participation in the fourday AWF Provincial Council of October 2002, this paper explores the changing composition, goals and ethos of AWF over its 35-year history. ![]() MU locally had also become an African stronghold, which may have reinforced the qualms of white and Coloured women about joining. 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. ![]() AbstractIn the late 1960s, the South African Anglican Church set up a new women's organisation, the Anglican Women's Fellowship (AWF).
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