This study explores the role of politically active Palestinian women in the Lebanese Resistance Movement. The author describes the types of work involved, the organizations these women have founded, and the changing nature of gender roles set against an intense and sustained crisis.

Landscape of Hope and Despair Palestinian Refugee Camps Julie Peteet "A book of serious scholarship and theoretical insight that is also a call to do something about this grim situation."--Journal of Palestine Studies "A sophisticated and nuanced study of how Palestinian refugees have negotiated notions of identity, and visions both of their past and their future, amidst various coercive forces inherent to refugee camp life."--American Historical Review Nearly half of the world's eight million Palestinians are registered refugees, having faced partition and exile. Landscape...