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

Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Writing Dislocation, Writing the Self: Bringing (Back) the Political into Gendered Israeli-Palestinian Dialoguing; Part I: Palestinian Women; Section 1: Exile in Lebanon; Chapter 1: A Narrative of Dispossession; Chapter 2: Remembering Mothers, Forming Daughters: Palestinian Women's Narratives in Refugee Camps in Lebanon; Chapter 3: Yaffawiyya (I am from Jaffa); Section 2: Home as Exile; Chapter 4: Gendered Politics of Location: Generational Intersections; Chapter 5: Nightmare; Chapter 6: Beyond the Boundaries.

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 involv

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 soci

Collection of autobiographical narratives of Palestinian and Israeli women on some of the most disturbing effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: dislocation. It involves social, cultural, national and gender dislocation and includes alienation from one's home, familiy, community, and society. The book is introduced and edited by a Palestinian and an Israeli woman scholar. (DÜI-Hns)