Women under and against the Occupation

Abstract

Product Review| November 01 2019 Women under and against the Occupation: Feminist Perspectives Space and Mobility in Palestine. Peteet, Julie. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. 239pages. isbn 9780253025111.No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine. Buch Segal, Lotte. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 211pages. isbn 9780812248210.Women, Reconciliation, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Road Not Yet Taken. Daniele, Giulia. London: Routledge, 2014. 179pages. isbn 9780520285262.Sustaining Conflict: Apathy and Domination in Israel-Palestine. Natanel, Katherine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016. 252pages. isbn 9780520285262. Amalia Saʾar Amalia Saʾar AMALIA SAʾAR is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Haifa. Contact: saaram@soc.haifa.ac.il. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 377–382. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720725 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Amalia Saʾar; Women under and against the Occupation: Feminist Perspectives. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 November 2019; 15 (3): 377–382. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720725 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsJournal of Middle East Women's Studies Search Advanced Search In the mounting scholarship on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, feminist analysts have contributed a distinctive perspective in their capacity to write politically about occupation, injustice, and continuous brutality without losing sight of contradictions. Read together, the four books reviewed here paint a complex picture of the mundane and often untold aspects of Palestinian daily life under the occupation, alongside the grassroots efforts of women on both sides of the divide to promote a resolution to it.In Space and Mobility in Palestine Julie Peteet describes the spatial turn in the Israeli control system in the West Bank. Eschewing the more dramatic incidents of military raids and searches, detentions, and home demolitions, the book documents the banal face of life under occupation under Israel’s latest (im)mobility regime, whose main principles are separation, closure, and enclavization. These are achieved through an... Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies2019 You do not currently have access to this content.