Negotiating Palestinian womanhood : encounters between Palestinian women and American missionaries, 1880s-1940s / Enaya Hammad Othman.
2016
HQ1728.5 .O84 2016
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Negotiating Palestinian womanhood : encounters between Palestinian women and American missionaries, 1880s-1940s / Enaya Hammad Othman.
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9781498509237 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781498509237
9781498509244 (e-book)
9781498509237
9781498509244 (e-book)
Published
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]
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©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (243 pages).
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HQ1728.5 .O84 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.4095694/0904
Summary
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' negotiation of multiple discourses about nationalism, womanhood, and motherhood.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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.