{"product_id":"educational-oases-in-the-desert-jonathan-sciarcon-9781438465852","title":"Educational Oases in the Desert: The Alliance Israelite Universelle's Girls' Schools in Ottoman Iraq, 1895-1915","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA history of the French schools that pioneered female education in Ottoman Iraq's Jewish communities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU), a Paris-based Jewish organization, founded dozens of primary schools throughout the Middle East. Many were the first formal educational institutions for local Jewish children. In addition to providing secular education, the schools attempted to change local customs and \"regenerate\" or \"uplift\" communities. \u003ci\u003eEducational Oases in the Desert\u003c\/i\u003e explores the largely forgotten history of the AIU's schools for girls in Ottoman Iraq. Drawing on extensive archival research, Jonathan Sciarcon argues that teachers viewed female education through a gendered lens linked to their understanding of an ideal modern society. As the primary educators of children, women were seen as society's key agents of socialization. The AIU thus concluded that its boys' schools would never succeed in creating polished, westernized men so long as women remained uneducated, leading to the creation of schools for girls. Sciarcon shows how headmistresses acted not just as educators but also as models of modernity, trying to impart new moral and aesthetic norms onto students.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Sciarcon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438465858\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438465852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Jonathan Sciarcon","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088257069311,"sku":"9781438465852","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8cbfbd32-8a81-4faa-9e70-ef703a5ed277.jpg?v=1769103906","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/educational-oases-in-the-desert-jonathan-sciarcon-9781438465852","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}