Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh has taught anthropology and gender studies at New York University and American University. She is the author of Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel and Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military. Isis Nusair is Assistant Professor of International Studies and Women's Studies at Denison University.
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Lila Abu-Lughod
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh and Isis Nusair
Part I. State and Ethnicity
1. Political Mobilization of Palestinians in Israel: The al-Ard Movement
Leena Dallasheh
2. A Good Arab in a Bad House? Unrecognized Villagers in the Israeli Military
Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh
3. Louder Than the Blue ID: Palestinian Hip-Hop in Israel
Amal Eqeiq
Part II. Memory and Oral History
4. Gendered Politics of Location of Three Generations of Palestinian Women in Israel
Isis Nusair
5. Counter-Memory: Palestinian Women Naming Historical Events
Fatma Kassem
6. Being a Border
Honaida Ghanim
Part III. Gendering Bodies and Space
7. The Roles of Palestinian Peasant Women: The Case of al-Birweh Village, 1930-1960
Lena Meari
8. Politics of Loyalty: Women's Voting Patterns in Municipal Elections
Taghreed Yahia-Younis
9. The Sexual Politics of Palestinian Women in Israel
Manal Shalabi
Part IV. Migrations
10. Palestinian Predicaments: Jewish Immigration and Refugee Repatriation
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury
11. Women's Masked Migration: Palestinian Women Explain Their Move upon Marriage
Lilian Abou-Tabickh
12. Emigration Patterns among Palestinian Women in Israel
Ibtisam Ibrahim
Works Cited
About the Contributors
Index