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<i>Battering States</i> is methodologically impressive, building on long-term ethnographic research in a variety of settings, interviews with victims, service care workers, advocates, and representatives of the state, as well as an impressive array of historical, legal, and other international and local texts. --<b>Mindie Lazarus-Black</b>, author of <i>Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation</i>

There is no questioning the thoroughness and commitment of the author to this important issue. Her treatment is methodologically rich and informed by extensive evidentiary depth. It will take a reader down to the street level, behind the scenes and into the emotional turmoil and struggles, documenting meticulously all of the relevant actors, from victims to service care workers to advocates--a holistic view rarely afforded on this issue. . . . [A] rare, in-depth, and comprehensive view into an issue that is typically beyond taboo in this important region. . . . Essential. --Choice -Battering States is methodologically impressive, building on long-term ethnographic research in a variety of settings, interviews with victims, service care workers, advocates, and representatives of the state, as well as an impressive array of historical, legal, and other international and local texts.---Mindie Lazarus-Black, author of Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation -Because US coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict rarely includes any mention of intimate violence, and even more rarely of Palestinian or Druze women's experiences and suffering as mothers and wives, Adelman's careful and multilayered examination of women's experiences of state and family will contribute to a greater understanding of multiple forms of violence in the area--violence that is not limited to the political violence prevalent in media coverage.---M. Cristina Alcalde, author of The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru -Battering States offers a unique bottom-up documentation of the multiple articulations of domestic and state violence. Set in the iconic 'security' theatre of Israel-Palestine, Adelman's ethnography reveals the practical meanings of insecurity for women from different ethnic, class, and national backgrounds. Yet alongside women's vulnerabilities, it also records local women's courage in politicizing domestic violence and their agency in combining peace and feminist activism, within and across the two national communities.---Amalia Sa'ar, author of Economic Citizenship: Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment Battering States offers a unique bottom-up documentation of the multiple articulations of domestic and state violence. Set in the iconic 'security' theatre of Israel-Palestine, Adelman's ethnography reveals the practical meanings of insecurity for women from different ethnic, class, and national backgrounds. Yet alongside women's vulnerabilities, it also records local women's courage in politicizing domestic violence and their agency in combining peace and feminist activism, within and across the two national communities. --Amalia Sa'ar, author of Economic Citizenship: Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment Battering States is methodologically impressive, building on long-term ethnographic research in a variety of settings, interviews with victims, service care workers, advocates, and representatives of the state, as well as an impressive array of historical, legal, and other international and local texts. --Mindie Lazarus-Black, author of Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation Because US coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict rarely includes any mention of intimate violence, and even more rarely of Palestinian or Druze women's experiences and suffering as mothers and wives, Adelman's careful and multilayered examination of women's experiences of state and family will contribute to a greater understanding of multiple forms of violence in the area--violence that is not limited to the political violence prevalent in media coverage. --M. Cristina Alcalde, author of The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru Battering States is methodologically impressive, building on long-term ethnographic research in a variety of settings, interviews with victims, service care workers, advocates, and representatives of the state, as well as an impressive array of historical, legal, and other international and local texts. --Mindie Lazarus-Black, author of Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation

<i>Battering States</i> offers a unique bottom-up documentation of the multiple articulations of domestic and state violence. Set in the iconic 'security' theatre of Israel-Palestine, Adelman's ethnography reveals the practical meanings of insecurity for women from different ethnic, class, and national backgrounds. Yet alongside women's vulnerabilities, it also records local women's courage in politicizing domestic violence and their agency in combining peace and feminist activism, within and across the two national communities. --<b>Amalia Sa'ar</b>, author of <i>Economic Citizenship: Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment</i>

<i>Battering States</i> offers a unique bottom-up documentation of the multiple articulations of domestic and state violence. Set in the iconic 'security' theatre of Israel-Palestine, Adelman's ethnography reveals the practical meanings of insecurity for women from different ethnic, class, and national backgrounds. Yet alongside women's vulnerabilities, it also records local women's courage in politicizing domestic violence and their agency in combining peace and feminist activism, within and across the two national communities. <b>Amalia Sa'ar</b>, author of <i>Economic Citizenship: Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment</i>

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Madelaine Adelman is Associate Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, USA. Past-president of the Association for Political & Legal Anthropology (APLA), she is coeditor (with Miriam Elman) of Jerusalem: Conflict and Cooperation in a Contested State.

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