Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 1993and 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. Thi
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Palestinian Women, Nonviolence, and Social Movements 2. Palestinian Women’s Pre-Oslo Activism 3. The Space for Resistance Constricts: Post-Oslo Palestine 4. Palestinian Women’s ‘Disengagement’ 5. Palestinian Women’s Perceptions of Resistance Actions 6. Palestinian Women’s Alternative Resistance Strategies Conclusion Bibliography
