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Woman and resistance
Tebaa 2nd volume
This volume of Tebaa tickles a topic related to women’s life,
whether on the political, social or cultural level, this topic
is resistance. The types of resistance vary according to types
of conflict, some are explicit others are implied. The volume
includes two of the studies which address the topic of
Palestinian resistance that is the more deserving type of
resistance. The first study focuses on the double resistance of
Palestinian women as they resist the Israeli occupation. The
second study sheds light on the same topic, but in the form of
comparison between Intifada of 1988 and Intifada of 2000. This
comparison mainly focuses on Intifada of 2000, concerning the
felt (noticeable) role of the Palestinian power and its new
entrusted role after the peace process in helping in providing
“peaceful coexistence” opportunities with the Israeli enemy. In
addition, it plays a role in opposing the internal resistance
movement against this enemy in general, and women’s resistance
in particular. The paper also discusses the gender issues under
the new conditions, among which the issue of “masculinity and
motherhood” and its effect on women’s positions in Palestine.
Thus the two studies focus mainly on the political resistance.
The volume also presents a research addresses another type of
double resistance, one is political and the other is social. The
first one is the Arabic American women’s resistance in a racial
society that is against everything “Arabic”. The research also
illustrates the ways of Arabic American women’s resistance to
this type of enmity by forming political and social associations
and organizing political and social activities that aim to
identifying the Arabic society and correcting its image. On the
other hand, the Arabic American women play a role in another
type of resistance similar to that of their fellows in Mother
Homeland against a paternal society which underestimates their
struggle and the importance of their entrusted roles.
The volume contains also a paper tickles the attempts of
resistance and empowerment which are presented by the “narrator
said” project. This project rewrites traditional tales and the
tales of One Thousand and One Nights from a gender-sensitive
perspective. Moreover, there is an abstract of the book
“heroines or victims” as it based on field research of the
conditions of some marginalized women in slums in some provinces
in Egypt. This is through a number of theoretical frames, among
which is the book “resistance by trick” by James Scott and his
theories about implied resistance. Finally, the volume contains
an abstract of the book Going out of the Shadow. This book
discuses women’s present struggle in their daily conflicts to
achieve social, political and economic rights in Chile, Uruguay
and Paraguay.
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