The Impact of American Protestant Missions in Lebanon on the Construction of Female Identity, c. 1860–1950

Year 2024, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 19 - 39, 31.01.2024

Translator: Esra Çıplak , Translator: Celal Öney

Abstract

In an attempt to answer how American Protestant missionaries have impacted middle-class Syrian women, this article focuses on Syrian women's experience of the American Presbyterian Mission in Lebanon. It deals with missionary educational institutions as the most important field of encounter between missionaries and women in the Middle East. It also speculates on what young Arab women take from the ideas of gender, modernisation and deculturation of mission education to shape their own destinies and create their own identities.

Keywords

Lebanon, American missionary work, Women, Middle East

Lübnan’daki Amerikan Protestan Misyonlarının Kadın Kimliğinin İnşasına Etkisi, (1860-1950)

Abstract

Amerikan Protestan misyonerliğinin orta sınıf Suriyeli kadınlar üzerinde nasıl bir etki yarattığını cevaplamaya çalışan bu makale, Suriyeli kadınların Lübnan’daki Amerikan Presbiteryen Misyonu deneyimine odaklanıyor. Ortadoğu’da misyonerler ve kadınlar arasındaki karşılaşmanın en önemli alanı olarak misyoner eğitim kurumlarını ele almaktadır. Ayrıca, genç Arap kadınlarının kendi kaderlerini şekillendirmek ve kendi kimliklerini yaratmak için misyon eğitimlerinin toplumsal cinsiyet, modernleşme ve kültürsüzleşme fikirlerinden neler aldıkları üzerine spekülasyonlar yapmaktadır.

Keywords

Lübnan, Amerikan misyonerliği, Kadın kimliği, Ortadoğu

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