Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation : : Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation / / ed. by Ronit Lentin, Nahla Abdo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abdo, Nahla,; Costandi, Samia,; Dajani, Souad,; El Farra, Mona,; Espanioly, Nabila,; Fuchs, Esther,; Lentin, Ronit,; Mannaa, Hala,; Mazali, Rela,; Nusair, Isis,; Sayigh, Rosemary,; Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera,; Shalvi, Alice,; Shohat, Ella Habiba,; Svirsky, Gila,; Warwar, Badea,; Yuval-Davis, Nira,
• HerausgeberIn: Abdo, Nahla,; Lentin, Ronit,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Writing Dislocation, Writing the Self: Bringing (Back) the Political into Gendered Israeli-Palestinian Dialoguing -- PART I PALESTINIAN WOMEN -- ONE Exile in Lebanon -- A Narrative of Dispossession -- Remembering Mothers, Forming Daughters: Palestinian Women’s Narratives in Refugee Camps in Lebanon -- Yaffawiyya (I am from Jaffa) -- TWO Home as Exile -- Gendered Politics of Location: Generational Intersections -- Nightmare -- Beyond the Boundaries -- Dislocating Self, Relocating ‘Other’: A Palestinian Experience -- THREE Life under Occupation -- Diary of the Dispossessed: Women’s Misery and Suffering under Israeli Occupation -- Between Dispossession and Undying Hope: The Refugees’ Eternal Agony -- Growing from Within: The Decolonisation of the Mind -- PART II ISRAELI JEWISH WOMEN -- FOUR Exile as Home -- Transformed by Joy -- In Tow: A Mother’s and Daughter’s Gendered Departures and Returns -- Feminist Peace Activism during the al-Aqsa Intifada -- FIVE Exile as an Oppositional Locus -- The Contaminated Paradise -- A Reluctant Eulogy: Fragments from the Memories of an Arab-Jew -- SIX Existential States of Exile -- Exile, Memory, Subjectivity: A Yoredet Reflects on National Identity and Gender -- ‘If I Forget Thee …’: Terms of Diasporicity -- Index