Negotiating Palestinian Womanhood
Encounters between Palestinian Women and American Missionaries, 1880s-1940s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4154785 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Reeves-Ellington (Cheshire, England), Barbara Reeves‐ellington (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1037-1037 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jax486 |
| OpenAlex | W2800483832 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Enaya Hammad Othman makes a welcome contribution to scholarship exploring the American Protestant missionary enterprise in the Middle East. She introduces Quakers (the Society of Friends) to the mix of denominations operating in the region and focuses her narrative on the Friends Girls School (FGS) in Ramallah. The school managed to enroll students, mostly urban Arab Christians, during the period of the late Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate. Yet Quakers were successful in promoting their ideas only where students, and the larger Palestinian community, were already open to change. As Othman argues, Quaker views about peace, pacifism, and internationalism set them apart from other missionaries and made an important contribution to shaping their students' gender and national identities. Rather than seeking to convert students to their religion, Quakers sought to imbue them with ideals of pacifism and neutrality, and encouraged them to become mediators in the struggle for women's rights and the national Palestinian movement. With access to student essays from the era of the British Mandate and interviews with former students conducted in 2006, Othman highlights the challenges students faced as they attempted to reconcile Quaker teachings with their domestic Arab Christian culture and the political realities of British-supported Zionism. Many essays gave voice to a view that Palestine could be home to Jews, Christians, and Muslims and a space where Arab culture could flourish
Internationalism (politics · Judaism · Mandate · Mandatory Palestine · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Scholarship · Sociology · Zionism · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |