Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change

ISBN-13: 9780415095464 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str.

Tamar Mayer

Opis

The state of Israel and the Palestinian nation are at a monumental juncture in their histories. Both have a chance to claim a new future but more than a quarter of a century of occupation has had significant social, political, economic, cultural, psychological and moral ramifications for Israeli and Palestinian men and women.
Women and the Israeli Occupation analyses the impact of the occupier/occupied dichotomy on the lives of Palestinian, Israeli Palestinian, and Israeli Jewish women. The book argues that the Occupation has exposed internal conflicts, challenging social structures within all three societies, but has also reinforced existing loyalties as Palestinian and Jewish women have moved into public political action and worked together to end the Occupation. It suggests that although military occupation is not colonialism, there are many similarities in the Israeli/Palestinian case.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Tamar Mayer