Women, water and memory : recasting lives in Palestine /
This book tells a different story about water. Against the backdrop of the end of the Ottoman Empire to the Palestinian uprisings, old Palestinian women recount life before and after piped water. While talking about fetching and managing household water, women also talked about being women. Women, W...
المؤلف الرئيسي:
التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
سلاسل:
Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World
6.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004223042.
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين: Login to view Source
الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: HQ1728.5 .N33 2009
| الملخص: | This book tells a different story about water. Against the backdrop of the end of the Ottoman Empire to the Palestinian uprisings, old Palestinian women recount life before and after piped water. While talking about fetching and managing household water, women also talked about being women. Women, Water and Memory speaks of many different lives. We hear stories about women's own strength and beauty, and about the woman who married a man whose ugly face made her sick. While one woman married the man "she cared for", another was relieved that her husband died when she was too old to be forced to remarry. We learn about the joy they feel each time they dance at a wedding, the sheer satisfaction of lighting a cigarette, the loyalty and shared despair towards families with members in prison, and about the tears of sorrow at each death and the delight at each birth. |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource. |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-167) and index. |
| ردمك: | 9789047442561 |
| وصول: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |