Overview

The state of Israel and the Palestinian nation are at a monumental juncture in their histories. Respective representatives have recognized each other's right to exist, learning to conceive of a new other'. Both have a chance to claim a new future, but more than a quarter of a century of occupation has left a permanent mark on all societies. l Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip created a relationship which, similar to that between colonizer and colonized, placed Israeli Jews in the position of the powerful and Palestinians of the Occupied Territories in the position of the powerless. This dichotomy of more than twenty-six years of occupation has significant social, political, economic, cultural, psychological and moral ramifications for both men and women, both Israelis and Palestinians. Women and the Israeli Occupation analyses the impact of the occupier/occupied unequal relationship on the lives of Palestinian and Jewish women. Exposing a set of previously unarticulated internal conflicts and differences, the book also discusses existing loyalties which have been reinforced as the different groups of women have moved into public political action, working together to end the Occupation. Combining the view of Jews and Palestinians from Israel and Palestinians from the Occupied Territories, this book is the first to discuss the impact of Occupation on women.

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Author:   Tamar Mayer (Middlebury College, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780415095464

ISBN 10:   0415095468
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   10 November 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Women and the Israeli Occupation: The context, Tamar Mayer; 2 What has the occupation done to Palestinian and Israeli women? A dialogue between Naomi Chazan and Mariam Mar’i; 3 Between national and social liberation: The Palestinian women’s movement in the Israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, Souad Dajani; 4 Heightened Palestinian nationalism: Military occupation, repression, difference and gender, Tamar Mayer; 5 Israeli women against the Occupation: Political growth and the persistence of ideology, Yvonne Deutsch; 6 Palestinian women in Israel: Identity in light of the Occupation, Nabila Espanioly; 7 Homefront as battlefield: Gender, military occupation and violence against women, Simona Sharoni; 8 Trends in labor market Participation and gender-linked occupational differentiation, Moshe Semyonov; 9 Women street peddlers: The phenomenon of Bastat in the Palestinian informal economy, Suha Hindiyeh-Mani, Afaf Ghazawneh, and Subhiyyeh Idris; 10 Environmental problems affecting Palestinian women under occupation, Karen Assaf; 11 A feminist politics of health care: The case of Palestinian women under Israeli occupation, 1979–1982, Elise G.Young; Index;

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