Recent Books GENDERED CONTACTS Colonial Encounters among English and Palestinian Women, 1800â1948, by Nancy L. Stockdale. Gainesville: University JouRnal of Palestine studies Press of Florida, 2007. xi + 196 pages. Notes to p. 220. Bibliography to p. 240. Index to p. 246. $59.95 cloth. Reviewed by Ellen Fleischmann Toward the end of Colonial Encounters among English and Palestinian Women, 1800â1948, Nancy Stockdale quotes a Palestinian schoolgirl who almost had a âbreakdownâ from her experience in an English school:âWho am I? I am not British, and Iâm not Arab. . . . You are nobodyâ (p. 186). The âidentity confusion and displacementâ (p. 2) expressed in this plaintive comment is one of the legacies of the imperial project that determined the interactions among English and Palestinian women for almost 150 years. But the âPalestinian women,â who are to a certain extent the minor actors in this book, are not always represented as victims. Indeed, Stockdale demonstrates the âreflexive nature of the colonial encounterâ (p. 2) by uncovering how women on both sides of the colonial divide represented the exotic âother,â and critically analyzes âwomenâs roles as imperial actors, as well as imperial resistorsâ (p. 9). Drawing on the theoretical
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GENDERED CONTACTS
Fleischmann, Ellen
Follow Journal of Palestine Studies
, Volume XXXIX (4)
University of California Press – Jul 1, 2010
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