Negotiating Palestinian womanhood : encounters between Palestinian women and American missionaries, 1880s-1940s /

This book examines the American Quaker educational enterprise in Palestine since its establishment in the late nineteenth century during the Ottoman rule and into the British Mandate period. Quaker education intersected with national and social forces and allowed for Palestinian girls' negotiat...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Othman, Enaya (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2016.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Women > Palestine > Social conditions > 20th century.
Americans > Palestine > History > 20th century.
Quakers > Palestine > History > 20th century.
Women missionaries > Palestine > History > 20th century.
Femmes > Palestine > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Quakers > Palestine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes missionnaires > Palestine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Americans
Quakers
Women missionaries
Women > Social conditions
Middle East > Palestine
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Education and missionary activities in nineteenth century Palestine
  • Quaker missionary women in Ramallah, 1889-1914 : first encounters
  • The American Quaker teachers changing attitudes to their Palestinian students and culture after World War I
  • Changing the women : the impact of teachers and curriculum
  • The dogmas of domesticity, nationalism, and feminism among Palestinian students.

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