Women and Conflict in the Middle East - Palestinian Refugees and the Response to Violence

Informationen zum Autor Maria Holt is Senior Lecturer in the Democracy and Islam Programme, part of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster. She is the co-author of Without Glory in Arabia: The British Retreat from Aden (I.B.Tauris). Klappentext Maria Holt uses her research gathered in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon and in the West Bank to look at the forms of violence suffered by women in the context of the wider conflict around them. Zusammenfassung Maria Holt uses her research gathered in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon and in the West Bank to look at the forms of violence suffered by women in the context of the wider conflict around them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction: The Palestine of our ImaginationChapter 2: The Intimate History of ViolenceChapter 3: ‘Violated Spaces’: Palestinian Women and the Politics of PlaceChapter 4: ‘She Still Has the Key’: The Multiple Violence of ExileChapter 5: War and ‘Uncivil Violence’ in LebanonChapter 6: The Politics of ForgettingChapter 7: Conclusion: Counter-narratives of Resistance

Product details

• Authors: Maria Holt
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2013
• EAN: 9781780761008
• ISBN: 978-1-78076-100-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Library of Modern Middle East Studies; Library of Modern Middle East; Library of Modern Middle East; Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research