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

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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Place / Publishing House:Lanham, Maryland : : Lexington Books,, [2016]
2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (243 pages)
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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.