TY - BOOK AU - Othman,Enaya TI - Negotiating Palestinian womanhood: encounters between Palestinian women and American missionaries, 1880s-1940s AV - HQ1728.5 .O84 2016 U1 - 305.4095694/0904 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Lanham, Maryland PB - Lexington Books KW - Women KW - Palestine KW - Social conditions KW - 20th century KW - Americans KW - History KW - Quakers KW - Women missionaries KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4692842 ER -