The Bereavement of Martyred Palestinian Children: Gendered, Religious and National Perspectives

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This book examines the phenomenon of individual and collective bereavement in Palestinian society. It seeks to explore the boundaries of the discourse of bereavement and commemoration in that society through the interactive relations between religion, nationality and gender, and the ways these influence the shaping of the mourning process for Palestinian parents who have lost their children in the second (al-Aqsa) Intifada. Over the course of the book’s five chapters, Maram Masarwi scrutinizes how these components have shaped the differences in behavior between bereaved fathers and bereaved mothers: what characterizes these differences, how they are expressed, and how they have managed to shape the characteristics of the experience of Palestinian bereavement. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii Overview: Coping with Bereavement and Trauma (Maram Masarwi)....Pages 1-16 Part One: Loss as Individual and Collective (Maram Masarwi)....Pages 17-28 Part Two: Gender, Religion and Nationalism in the Grieving Process (Maram Masarwi)....Pages 29-50 Part Three: Coping with Bereavement in the Religious, Cultural and Societal Contexts—How Religion and Culture Shape Bereavement (Maram Masarwi)....Pages 51-79 Part Four: National Identity and the Way Bereaved Parents Cope (Maram Masarwi)....Pages 81-99 Part Five: The Politics of Memory and Commemoration (Maram Masarwi)....Pages 101-123 Back Matter ....Pages 125-144