Palestinian women's everyday resistance: Between normality and normalisation

Sophie Richter-Devroe*

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Abstract

The paper traces Palestinian women's understandings, practices and framings of everyday resistance. Women's resistance acts consist of both materially-based survival strategies and various coping strategies at the ideational level. Focussing on the latter, this study investigates women's practices of travelling to create (a sense of) normal joyful life for themselves, their families, friends and community with the aim of shedding light upon the complex and mutually constitutive interplay between women's agency and the various social and political power structures. It is argued that Palestinian women, although framing their acts of crossing Israeli-imposed physical restriction as acts of resistance against the occupation, are in fact also seizing an opportunity to covertly challenge and trespass internal patriarchal forms of control.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)32-46
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of International Women's Studies
Volume12
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2011

Keywords

  • Gender
  • Middle east
  • Palestine
  • Resistance
  • Women's activism

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