Citation

Abu‐Rabia‐Queder S. Anthropol. Educ. Q. 2008; 39(4): 381-400.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Council on Anthropology and Education, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1548-1492.2008.00029.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study challenges and evaluates modern-liberal-humanistic discourse on education as enlightenment through analysis of the life stories of the first Bedouin women to acquire higher education (hereafter: First Women). The liberal discourse is examined in terms of its ethnic and genderial contexts and the special status these women gained as trailblazers. I explore the meaning of enlightenment among Bedouin women and the question of when and whether (higher) education facilitates or impedes their progress. [education, enlightenment, postmodernism, modernism, Bedouin women]