Colonial Encounters among English and Palestinian Women, 1800--1948, by Nancy L. Stockdale. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. xi + 196 pages. Notes to p. 220. Bibliography to p. 240. Index to p. 246. $59.95 cloth.

Ellen Fleischmann, associate professor of history at the University of Dayton, is the author of The Nation and Its ‘New’ Women: The Palestinian Women’s Movement, 1920–1948 (University of California Press, 2003).