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Sumud - Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine (Hardcover)
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Sumud - Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine (Hardcover)
Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
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Sumud, meaning steadfastness in Arabic, is central to the issues of
survival and resistance that are part of daily life for
Palestinians. Although much has been written about the politics,
leaders, and history of Palestine, less is known about how everyday
working-class Palestinians exist day to day, negotiating military
occupation and shifting social infrastructure. Wick's powerful
ethnography opens a window onto the lives of Palestinians,
exploring specifically the experience of giving birth. Drawing upon
oral histories, Wick follows the stories of mothers, nurses, and
midwives in villages and refugee camps. She maps the ways in which
individuals narrate and experience birth, calling attention to the
genre and form of these stories. Placing these oral histories in
context, the book looks at the history of the infrastructure
surrounding birth and medicine in Palestine, from large hospitals
to village clinics, to private homes. As the medical landscape
changed from centralized urban hospitals to decentralized
independent caregivers, women increasingly carved a space for
themselves in public discourse and employed the concept of sumud to
relate their everyday struggles.
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