Format:
1 online resource (243 pages)
ISBN:
9781498509244
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Education and Missionary Activities in Nineteenth-Century Palestine -- Chapter Two: Quaker Missionary Women in Ramallah, 1889-1914 -- Chapter Three: Changing Attitudes after World War I -- Chapter Four: Changing the Women -- Chapter Five: The Dogmas of Domesticity, Nationalism, and Feminism among Palestinian Students -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781498509237
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781498509237
Language:
English
