Women, water and memory : recasting lives in Palestine /

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...

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Main Author: Naguib, Nefissa, 1960-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Series: Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World 6.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004223042.

Subjects:

Ländlicher Raum.
Palästinenserin.
Soziale Situation.
Women and religion > Palestine.
Women storytellers > Palestine.
Women, Palestinian Arab > Social conditions.
Women, Palestinian Arab > Social life and customs.

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Call Number: HQ1728.5 .N33 2009

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • The women and their stories
  • Chapter One. Musharafah
  • Chapter Two. Palestine-A contested site
  • Chapter Three. Women, water and memory
  • Chapter Four. Being in the world
  • Chapter Five. Women and places outside
  • Chapter Six. Telling STories
  • Conclusion and further reflections
  • Bibliography
  • Index.