Book
Gender in crisis: women and the Palestinian resistance movement
Columbia University Press • New York • Published In 1991 • Pages:
By: Peteet, Julie Marie.
Abstract
This is a history of Palestinian women's political activism. Peteet looks at both the pre-1948 women's movement and the post-1948 movement in Lebanon where she did her fieldwork. Peteet is interested in the relationship between the women's movement and the national movement, political consciousnesss and feminist consciousness, political activism and gender relations. How has the Resistance mobilized women and how has it impacted on traditional division of labor and gender ideology? She interviews a variety of women involved in the movement, even if only peripherally, including those women who are university educated, illiterate, single, married, widowed, well-off, poor, mothers of two children, mothers of eight children. She concludes that while the Resistance awakened women to a feminist consciousness, their struggle for gender equality and rights within the movement has been constrained by the larger struggle for national self-determination.
- 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
- 1980-1982
- Coverage Date
- 1948-1984
- Coverage Place
- Lebanon
- Notes
- by Julie M. Peteet
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index
- LCCN
- 90025824
- LCSH
- Palestinian Arabs