Negotiating Palestinian Womanhood
Subtitle: Encounters Between Palestinian Women and American Missionaries, 1880s-1940s
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781498509237
Subjects: Women missionaries; Quakers; Americans, middle east; Palestine, social conditions
Description: 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.