Review. Preparing the mothers of tomorrow : education and Islam in mandate Palestine, by Ela Greenberg.

Reseña. Preparando a las madres del mañana : educación e Islam en el mandato de Palestina, por Ela Greenberg.

Ela Greenberg offers a detailed work on the development of Muslim female education in Palestine since the end of the Ottoman Empire and throughout the British Mandate (1880-1948), conducting a thorough investigation of modern colonial / decolonial conceptions where female education which was a key piece for the development of Palestinian nationalism and a favorite space to confront a space towards modernity. A work that intersects analysis of gender, religion, social class, nationalism and British imperial policy, using the history of education in the Mandate of Palestine as a vital lens to understand the implications of the problems of a nascent modernization in Palestine (Grosvenor, 1999; Fortna, 2002).

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