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Palestinian Women and Popular Resistance - Perceptions, Attitudes, and Strategies (Paperback)
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Palestinian Women and Popular Resistance - Perceptions, Attitudes, and Strategies (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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This book explores Palestinian women's views of popular resistance
in the West Bank and examines factors shaping the nature and extent
of their involvement. Despite the signing of the Oslo peace accords
in 1993 and 1995, the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the
contemporary period have experienced tightened Israeli occupational
control and worsening political, humanitarian, security, and
economic conditions. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with
women in the West Bank, this book looks at how Palestinian women in
the post-Oslo period perceive, negotiate, and enact resistance. It
demonstrates that, far from being 'apathetic', as some observers
have charged, Palestinian women remain deeply committed to the
goals of national liberation and wish to contribute to an effective
popular resistance movement. Yet many Palestinian women feel
alienated from prevailing forms of collective popular resistance in
the OPT due to the low levels of legitimacy they accord them. This
alienation has been made stark by the gendered and intersecting
impacts of expanding settler-colonialism, tightening spatial
control, a professionalised and depoliticised civil society,
reinforced patriarchal constraints, Israeli and Palestinian
Authority (PA) repression and violence, and a deteriorating economy
- all of which have raised the barriers Palestinian women face to
active participation. Undertaking a gendered analysis of conflict
and resistance, this volume highlights significant changes over the
course of a long-running resistance movement. Readers interested in
gender and women's studies, the Arab-Israel conflict and Middle
East politics will find the study beneficial.
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