Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on oral history of female Palestinian political detainees, this book analyses their anti-colonial struggles in this overlooked subject.
Trade Review'Reveals just how much of the history of anti-imperialist struggles is absent when women - especially Palestinian women freedom fighters - are overlooked' -- Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
'By interviewing Palestinian women political detainees and by situating their experiences both historically and globally, Abdo fills an important gap in both feminist and non-feminist scholarship on gender and resistance' -- Simona Sharoni, Ph.D, Professor, Gender & Women’s Studies, State University of New York, Plattsburgh
'Nahla Abdo's groundbreaking, highly personal anti-imperialist analysis of Palestinian women political detainees makes a vital contribution to feminist studies of struggle and resistance, moving the reader from rage to hope' -- Ronit Lentin, Associate professor of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin
'A landmark contribution. Avoiding the simplicity of merely adding the narratives of women to existing accounts of prison struggles, Abdo indicts the colonial violence, gynophobia, orientalism and cultural erasure that define the carceral regimes which Palestinian women encounter, and resist' -- Dr Mary Corcoran, Keele University, UK.
'A powerful and informative book, whose historical, cultural and political framing distinguishes it within an expanding literature on women political prisoners in the Middle East' -- Rosemary Sayigh, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
1. Forgotten History, Lost Voices and Silent Souls: Women Political Detainees
2. Anti-Colonial Resistance in Context
3. Colonialism, Imperialism and the Culture of Resistance
4. Political Detainees and the Israeli Prison System
5. Prison as a Site of Resistance
Conclusion
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
