ISBN:
9781498509244
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (243 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Othman, Enaya Negotiating Palestinian womanhood : encounters between Palestinian women and American missionaries, 1880s-1940s
DDC:
305.4095694/0904
Keywords:
Society of Friends
;
Geschichte 1889-1948
;
Women Social conditions 20th century
;
Americans History 20th century
;
Quakers History 20th century
;
Women missionaries History 20th century
;
Erziehung
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Missionar
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Mission
;
Palästinenserin
;
Frau
;
USA
;
Palästina
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Palästina
;
Society of Friends
;
Missionar
;
Palästinenserin
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Geschichte 1889-1948
;
USA
;
Palästina
;
Frau
;
Society of Friends
;
Mission
;
Erziehung
Abstract:
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
Description / 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
Note:
Description based on print version record
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