May 16, 2014

Contradictory Location: Assessing the Position of Palestinian Women Citizens of Israel

The author addresses a certain inconsistency in the collective portrait of Palestinian women citizens of Israel, as it is depicted in the feminist literature that emphasizes, simultaneously, multiple forms of oppression and impressive resisting capacities, but does not give sufficient explanation of how these two seemingly contradictory aspects interrelate. The author uses ethnographic data to argue that more attention should be given to structural tensions between the various regimes that compose the Israeli-Palestinian gender order, notably the family, the state, and the national/ethnic communities. While the shared patriarchal nature of these regimes produces powerful experiences of omnipresent and naturalized oppression, competition among them allows women some very important latitude.

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