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

By: Othman, Enaya [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: 1 online resource (243 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781498509244 (e-book)Subject(s): Women -- Palestine -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Americans -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century | Quakers -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century | Women missionaries -- Palestine -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Negotiating Palestinian womanhood : encounters between Palestinian women and American missionaries, 1880s-1940s.DDC classification: 305.4095694/0904 LOC classification: HQ1728.5 | .O84 2016Online resources: Click to View
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.
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.

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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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