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Palestinian Women: Narrative histories and gendered memory

By Fatma Kassem

Book information

Publisher
Zed books
Year
2011
ISBN
184813424X, 9781848134249
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3164390 bytes)
Pages
272\274
Time added
2017-02-06 22:29:35
Historical Study & Educational Resources;Archaeolo

Description

Palestinian Women is the first book to examine and document the experiences and the historical narrative of ordinary Palestinian women who witnessed the events of 1948 and became involuntary citizens of the State of Israel. Told in their own words, the women's experiences serve as a window for examining the complex intersections of gender, nationalism and citizenship in a situation of ongoing violent political conflict. Known in Palestinian discourse as the "Nakbeh," or the "Catastrophe," these events of 60 years ago still have a powerful resonance in contemporary Palestinian-Jewish relations in the State of Israel and in the act of narrating these stories, the author argues that the realm of memory is a site of commemoration and resistance.

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