Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation (eBook, ePUB)

Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation
Redaktion: Abdo, Nahla; Lentin, Ronit

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As the crisis in Israel does not show any signs of abating, this remarkable collection, edited by an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar and with contributions by Palestinian and Israeli women, offers a vivid and harrowing picture of the conflict and of its impact on daily life, especially as it affects women's experiences that differ significantly from those of men.

The (auto)biographical narratives in this volume focus on some of the most disturbing effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a sense of dislocation that goes well beyond the geographical meaning of the word; it involves social, cultural, national and gender dislocation, including alienation from one's own home, family, community, and society. The accounts become even more poignant if seen against the backdrop of the roots of the conflict, the real or imaginary construct of a state to save and shelter particularly European Jews from the horrors of Nazism in parallel to the other side of the coin: Israel as a settler-colonial state responsible for the displacement of the Palestinian nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782381730
• Artikelnr.: 40805944

Autorenporträt

Nahla Abdo is Professor of Sociology at Carleton University, Ottawa. She has published extensively on women and the state in the Middle East with special focus on Palestinian women. Among the publications is Sociological Thought: Beyound Eurocentric Theory (1996). She contributed to the establishment of the Women's Studies Institute at Birzeit University and has found the Gender Research Unit at the Women's Empowerment Project/Gaza Community Mental Health Program in Gaza.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Writing Dislocation, Writing the Self: Bringing Back the
Political into Gendered Israeli-Palestinian Dialoguing
Chapter 1. Palestinian Women: Exile in Lebanon
Chapter 2. Home as Exile
Chapter 3. Life under Occupation
Chapter 4. Israeli Jewish Women: Exile as Home
Chapter 5. Exile as an Oppositional Locus
Chapter 6. Existential States of Exile
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

"History and biography converge in this stunning collection of personal narratives. These essays probe the searing pain of life under Israeli military occupation and the complex sorrow of dislocation and exile." - R. Ruth Linden, University of California, San Francisco