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Scholarship on the role of women in Palestinian society and the national movement.
Behind the Intifada: Labor and Women's Movements in the Occupied Territories
By Joost R. Hiltermann
Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press (January 1992), 265 pages
Before the intifada began, Joost Hiltermann had already looked at local organizations in the Israeli- occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and seen there the main elements that would eventually be used to mobilize the Palestinian masses. In the first comprehensive study of these organizations, Hiltermann shows how local organizers provided basic services unavailable under military rule, while recruiting for the cause of Palestinian nationalism
Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel
By Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh
Publisher: University of California Press (September 2002), 283 pages
In this rich, evocative study, Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh examines the changing notions of sexuality, family, and reproduction among Palestinians living in Israel. Distinguishing itself amid the media maelstrom that has homogenized Palestinians as "terrorists," this important new work offers a complex, nuanced, and humanized depiction of a group rendered invisible despite its substantial size, now accounting for nearly twenty percent of Israel's population. Groundbreaking and thought-provoking, Birthing the Nation contextualizes the politics of reproduction within contemporary issues affecting Palestinians, and places these issues against the backdrop of a dominant Israeli society.
Daughters of Palestine: Leading Women of the Palestinian National Movement
By Amal Kawar
Publisher: State Univ. of New York Pr. (April 1996)
The history of women's involvement in the Palestinian national movment.
Food for Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists
By Joanna Kadi
Publisher: South End Press (October 1, 1994), 291 pages
Adding to the literature on multiculturalism, this collection of essays, poems, and recipes highlights some of the experiences and attitudes of North American women of Arab descent. The contributors share strong nationalist sentiments about their root countries (primarily Lebanon and Palestine), rail against the bigotry and ignorance encountered by their families in North America, and uniformly denounce the Gulf War. -- From Library Journal
Imm Mathilda: A Bethlehem Mother's Diary
By Alison Jones Nassar
Publisher: Kirk House Pub. (October 2003), 244 pages
Land Before Honour: Palestinian Women in the Occupied Territories
By Kitty Warnock
Publisher: Monthly Review Press (October 1990)
The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948
By Ellen L. Fleischmann
Publisher: University of California Press (April 1, 2003), 350 pages
This book is the first comprehensive historical study of the emergence and development of the Palestinian women's movement in this important historical period. Drawing from little-studied source material including oral histories, newspapers, memoirs, and government documents, Ellen Fleischmann not only shows what these women accomplished within the political arena, but also explores the social, cultural, and economic contexts within which they operated. Charting the emergence of an indigenous feminism in Palestine, this work joins efforts to broaden European and American definitions of feminism by incorporating non-Western perspectives.
Palestinian Women: Identity and Experience
By Ebba Augustin (Editor)
Publisher: Zed Books (November 1993)
Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank
By Suha Sabbagh (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press (March 1998), 304 pages
This volume introduces the reader to the multiple roles and challenges that women faced in the interaction between the social and political dimensions of Arab/Palestinian society on the West Bank.
Palestinian Women: Patriarchy and Resistance in the West Bank
By Cheryl Rubenberg
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers (March 2001), 318 pages
Portraits of Palestinian Women
By Orayb Aref Najjar
Publisher: University of Utah Press (March 1999), 312 pages
The heroism and leadership displayed by Palestinian women in the West Bank conflict--and the price they have paid for their courage--has long gone unrecognized. Jerusalem-born Najjar, a Northern Illinois University journalism teacher, here records the stories of 14 of these women, of all ages and backgrounds, interviewed between 1984 and 1989. Commentaries by the author and some of her subjects on deep-rooted issues involved in the conflict accompany the women's accounts and demonstrate how the Intifada "touches every sector of society"; issues discussed include resettlement of Israeli immigrants in occupied territory, Palestinian autonomy and land claims. (From Publishers Weekly)
Three Mothers, Three Daughters: Palestinian Women's Stories
By Michael Gorkin
Publisher: University of California Press (August 1996), 261 pages
This remarkable collection of oral histories from six Palestinian women, three mothers and three of their daughters, affords an unparalleled view into the daily lives of women who have lived, and continue to live, through a turbulent and rapidly changing era. In recording these stories, Michael Gorkin and Rafiqa Othman have preserved each woman's distinctive voice, capturing in vivid and moving detail a broad range of experienceeverything from recollections of native villages to an account of incarceration as a political prisoner.
Women and Gender in Early Jewish and Palestinian Nationalism
By Sheila H. Katz
Publisher: University Press of Florida (May 2003), 208 pages
Drawing on a variety of source materials, ranging from popular print media to poetry, film, political treatises, and biographies and autobiographies, Sheila Katz examines the ways in which gender operated in forming the political identities of Palestinian Arabs and Jewish Zionists. By exploring both gender definitions and their expressions in the everyday lives of two contesting peoples, she provides a highly nuanced understanding of how gender affects the discourse of conflict between two competing national movements.
The Women Are Marching: The Second Sex and the Palestinian Revolution
By Phillippa Strum
Publisher: Lawrence Hill & Co (May 1992), 345 pages
Strum, a Brooklyn College political science professor and a Jew who lived for intervals between 1989 and 1991 in the West Bank town of Ramallah, here seeks to present a fresh, in-depth perspective on the changing sexual and social roles of Palestinian women as a result of the intifada. (From Publishers Weekly)
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