Book
Birthing the nation: strategies of Palestinian women in Israel
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 2002 • Pages: xvii, 283
By: Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann.
Abstract
This is a study of family planning among Palestinians living in Israel and how it is wrapped up in discourses on nation, economy, class, the body and gender. According to Kanaaneh, who grew up in the Galilee, the number of children desired, birth spacing, sex preference, child raising methods, contraception, household investment are all discussed within context of nation, class, gender, and modernity. The author discusses how reproduction is tied to identity issues and in this particular case the ongoing struggle between Palestinians and Israelis.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 2004
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1948-1995
- Coverage Place
- Galilee, Israel
- Notes
- Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh ; with a foreword by Hanan Ashrawi
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-275) and index
- LCCN
- 2002001244
- LCSH
- Palestinian Arabs