Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation

Nahla Abdo-Zubi, Ronit Lenṭin

Berghahn Books, 2002 - History - 324 pages

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.

Contents

• Bringing Back: 1
• A Narrative of Dispossession Samia Costandi: 39
• Palestinian: 56
• Yaffawiyya I am from Jaffa Souad Dajani: 72
• Generational Intersections: 89
• Nightmare Nabila Espanioly: 100
• Beyond the Boundaries Badea Warwar: 111
• A Palestinian Experience: 119
• Womens Misery and Suffering: 159
• The Decolonisation of the Mind: 176
• Transformed by Joy Alice Shalvi: 199
• A Mothers and Daughters Gendered Departures: 207
• Feminist Peace Activism during the alAqsa Intifada: 234
• The Contaminated Paradise Nira YuvalDavis: 251
• Fragments from the Memories: 262
• A Yoredet Reflects on National: 279
• Terms of Diasporicity Ronit Lentin: 295
• Index: 321

About the author

Ronit Lentin was born in Haifa prior to the establishment of the State of Israel and has lived in Ireland since 1969. She is a well known writer of fiction and non-fiction books and is course co-ordinator of the MPhil in Ethnic Studies at the Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin. She has published extensively on the genedered link between Israel and the Shoah, feminist research methodologies, Israeli and Palestinian women's peace activism, gender and racism in Ireland.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation; ACLS Humanities E-Book; Berghahn Series
• Editors: Nahla Abdo-Zubi, Ronit Lenṭin
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2002
• ISBN: 1571814590, 9781571814593
• Length: 324 pages
• Subjects: History / Middle East / Israel & Palestine; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science / Women's Studies