Women And The Politics Of Military Confrontation :
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[Book]
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Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation.
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New York, NY :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Berghahn Books,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (336 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Writing Dislocation, Writing the Self: Bringing (Back) the Political into Gendered Israeli-Palestinian Dialoguing; Part I: Palestinian Women; Section 1: Exile in Lebanon; Chapter 1: A Narrative of Dispossession; Chapter 2: Remembering Mothers, Forming Daughters: Palestinian Women's Narratives in Refugee Camps in Lebanon; Chapter 3: Yaffawiyya (I am from Jaffa); Section 2: Home as Exile; Chapter 4: Gendered Politics of Location: Generational Intersections; Chapter 5: Nightmare; Chapter 6: Beyond the Boundaries.
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Chapter 7: Dislocating Self, Relocating 'Other': A Palestinian ExperienceSection 3: Life under Occupation; Chapter 8: Diary of the Dispossessed: Women's Misery and Suffering under Israeli Occupation; Chapter 9: Between Dispossession and Undying Hope: The Refugees' Eternal Agony; Chapter 10: Growing from Within: The Decolonisation of the Mind; Part II: Israeli Jewish Women; Section 4: Exile as Home; Chapter 11: Transformed by Joy; Chapter 12: In Tow: A Mother's and Daughter's Gendered Departures and Returns; Chapter 13: Feminist Peace Activism during the al-Aqsa Intifada.
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Section 5: Exile as Oppositional LocusChapter 14: The Contaminated Paradise; Chapter 15: A Reluctant Eulogy: Fragments from the Memories of an Arab-Jew; Section 6: Existential States of Exile; Chapter 16: Exile, Memory, Subjectivity: A Yoredet Reflects on National Identity and Gender; Chapter 17: 'If I Forget Thee ... ': Terms of Diasporicity; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 involv.
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JSTOR
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22573/ctt7j12qv
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Title
Women And The Politics Of Military Confrontation : Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation.
International Standard Book Number
9781571814593
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Women-- Israel-- Social conditions.
Women, Palestinian Arab-- Gaza Strip-- Social conditions.
Women, Palestinian Arab-- Lebanon-- Social conditions.
Women, Palestinian Arab-- West Bank-- Social conditions.