Overview
A personal journey forces the author to confront her Jewish identity and Western feminism
Full Product Details
Author: S Gluck
Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 25.00cm
Weight: 0.666kg
ISBN: 9781566391917
ISBN 10: 1566391911
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 29 July 1994
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
[A] thoughtful Jewish feminist look at the struggles between Israel and Palestine during the intifada years. --Feminist Bookstore News Her sensitive and vivid account evokes [the intifada's] hope and despair, its failures and achievements, and its unending human significance. --Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...a serious and conscious effort to grapple with the diversity in feminist thought and practice while resisting the imposition of her own brand of 'Western' feminism on Palestinian women. --Rabab Abdulhadi, National Board, Union of Palestinian Women's Associations in North America Sherna Berger Gluck communicates the voices of Palestinians, especially Palestinian women, quite compellingly. Careful not to impose the constructs of Western feminism on the women she meets, Gluck is also disarmingly frank in revealing her own personal dilemmas, making her testimony all the more poignant and necessary. --Souad R. Dajani, Antioch College, and author of Eyes without a Country: Searching for a Palestinian Strategy of Liberation The critical questions raised by Gluck--a feminist, a Jew, a U.S. academic and activist--in the course of four visits to the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip loom no less large and significant, even now as Israel and Arafat's PLO seek to implement the terms of their 1993 agreement. --Barbara Harlow, University of Texas In the years ahead, the need for all Jews and Palestinians to hear each other's voices will remain urgent. I hope Gluck's account will inspire more of us to listen to the Other--and so become larger ourselves. --Jonathan Boyarin, author of Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory Not many middle-aged Jewish college professors spend their vacations in occupied Palestine, dodging tear-gas canisters hurled by Israeli soldiers, and visiting--and occasionally staying with--Arab families in overcrowded refugee camps or tiny houses with no central heating. For those itching to learn how families and feminists coped in the West Bank, Gluck's experiences are worth reading... --Publishers Weekly
[A] thoughtful Jewish feminist look at the struggles between Israel and Palestine during the intifada years. -Feminist Bookstore News Her sensitive and vivid account evokes [the intifada's] hope and despair, its failures and achievements, and its unending human significance. -Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...a serious and conscious effort to grapple with the diversity in feminist thought and practice while resisting the imposition of her own brand of 'Western' feminism on Palestinian women. -Rabab Abdulhadi, National Board, Union of Palestinian Women's Associations in North America
"""[A] thoughtful Jewish feminist look at the struggles between Israel and Palestine during the intifada years."" --Feminist Bookstore News ""Her sensitive and vivid account evokes [the intifada's] hope and despair, its failures and achievements, and its unending human significance."" --Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ""...a serious and conscious effort to grapple with the diversity in feminist thought and practice while resisting the imposition of her own brand of 'Western' feminism on Palestinian women."" --Rabab Abdulhadi, National Board, Union of Palestinian Women's Associations in North America ""Sherna Berger Gluck communicates the voices of Palestinians, especially Palestinian women, quite compellingly. Careful not to impose the constructs of Western feminism on the women she meets, Gluck is also disarmingly frank in revealing her own personal dilemmas, making her testimony all the more poignant and necessary."" --Souad R. Dajani, Antioch College, and author of Eyes without a Country: Searching for a Palestinian Strategy of Liberation ""The critical questions raised by Gluck--a feminist, a Jew, a U.S. academic and activist--in the course of four visits to the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip loom no less large and significant, even now as Israel and Arafat's PLO seek to implement the terms of their 1993 agreement."" --Barbara Harlow, University of Texas ""In the years ahead, the need for all Jews and Palestinians to hear each other's voices will remain urgent. I hope Gluck's account will inspire more of us to listen to the Other--and so become larger ourselves."" --Jonathan Boyarin, author of Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory ""Not many middle-aged Jewish college professors spend their vacations in occupied Palestine, dodging tear-gas canisters hurled by Israeli soldiers, and visiting--and occasionally staying with--Arab families in overcrowded refugee camps or tiny houses with no central heating. For those itching to learn how families and feminists coped in the West Bank, Gluck's experiences are worth reading..."" --Publishers Weekly"
Author Information
Sherna Berger Gluck directs the Oral History Program and teaches in the Women's Studies Program at California State University, Long Beach. Her previously published books include Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History (with Daphne Patai).
