Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement
Julie Peteet
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An ethnography of Palestinian women in the resistance movement in Lebanon's refugee camps.
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PalestineLate 1970s to 1993
From the late 1970s, grassroots women's work committees organised in villages and camps of the West Bank and Gaza. During the first intifada (1987 to 1993) they ran neighbourhood committees, home schooling, food production and boycotts, making women central to the uprising.
Women's work committees linked to the main Palestinian political groups.
An end to occupation; women's education, work and organisation.
Julie Peteet
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An ethnography of Palestinian women in the resistance movement in Lebanon's refugee camps.
A history of Palestinian women's organising from the first intifada to the rise of Islamist women's movements.