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Icons and militantsarticle 1997 • Peteet, Julie Marie
Palestinians • Middle East > Middle East
Mothers are icons of nations and motherhood is often invoked in nation building and national struggles. Peteet examines this metaphor in the context of the civil war in Lebanon (1975-1991) and...Male gender and rituals of resistance in the Palestinain intifadaarticle 1994 • Peteet, Julie Marie
Palestinians • Middle East > Middle East
In this article, Peteet construes the beatings and detentions received by Palestinian male youth by Israeli security forces during the Intifada as a rite of passage to manhood. She also sees i...Gender in crisisBook 1991 • Peteet, Julie Marie
Palestinians • Middle East > Middle East
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 int...