Activists, Lobbyists, and Suicide Bombers: Lessons from the Palestinian Women’s Movement

Amireh, Amal

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“…El Said, Meari, and Pratt (:4) also critique the analyses of the Arab uprisings which often view women's resistance as peculiar, marginalizing women's long history of resistance in the region (i.e., the Algerian Revolution of the 1950s–1960s and the Palestinian resistance beginning in the mid‐1960s). This kind of marginalization prevents us from seeing the historical trajectory of women's resistance in the region and how the armed resistance of women (e.g., in Algeria and Palestine) intermingles with unarmed resistance and activism (Amireh ; Hasso ; Peteet ). In my analysis, I emphasize how women's participation in armed movements affects nonarmed resistances by women, and how this in turn reshape gender relations in everyday life.…”

Section: Scholarly Discussion Of Women and Resistance In The Middle Eastmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendering Resistance: Multiple Faces of the Kurdish Women's Struggle

Göksel

2019

Sociological Forum

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The article explores the Kurdish women's movement in Turkey by bridging two forms of resistance: those of guerrilla women fighters and of activist women. Based on my extensive ethnographic and archival research, I ask how women under conditions of war engage in different modes of resistance. In what ways does the “heroic resistance” of guerrilla women resonate with and/or contradict the everyday, “ordinary” struggles of activist women? The potent image of the Kurdish guerrilla woman that emerged in the early 1990s is constitutive of many other modes of political subjectivities, even among women who do not or cannot become guerrillas. One of those subjectivities is that of the activist woman. My analysis suggests that women's activism opens up a middle ground of action between “heroic” and “ordinary” resistance by reconciling revolutionary politics with everyday activism around gender‐based violence, democracy, and human rights. Although both revolutionary movement participants and scholars of revolutionary resistance often contrast the “ordinary” with the realm of armed resistance, this article challenges this dichotomy. I take the two realms of resistance—the ordinary and the heroic—as the core constituents of revolutionary resistance, and I reconsider the gendered interplay between them.

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Section: Scholarly Discussion Of Women and Resistance In The Middle Eastmentioning

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Gendering Resistance: Multiple Faces of the Kurdish Women's Struggle

Göksel

2019

Sociological Forum

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“…They have revived and realigned preand post-colonial tribal, religious, national, and sectarian grievances, disputes, and conflicts throughout most of Asia and Africa. Religions have taken a central stage in public lives, and thus secular space is shrinking globally (Amireh 2012;Moghissi 2013). Religious doctrines, from Islam to Christianity, Judaism, or Hinduism, are governing women's bodies, sexuality, and gender relations.…”

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Global Finance Capital and Third World Debt

Alami¹

2021

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

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President Nicolas] Sarkozy was triggered more by economic and commercial interests than by humanitarian concerns." I hope we are not seeing the same film all over again.The position of imperial states was very different from the states of the nonaligned world. Countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, and South Africa praised Gaddafi, while in most parts of Africa, there are those who call for exposure on the role of France in Libya.After NATO declared victory, there were elaborate plans for the reform agenda in Libya. The supporters of Gaddafi were persecuted, and black Libyans were killed as mercenaries. The NTC orchestrated an elaborate process for parliamentary elections and a new government in 2012, but the case of the Libyan Investment Authority against Goldman Sachs thrust Libya again into war until the British High Court Judgment in 2016. Since then, the United Nations has attempted to create the basis for a government of National Unity, but the differing external forces that had come together to defeat Gaddafi could not agree. Libya is now caught in a war with Egypt, France, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia supporting one faction led by general Haftar, while Italy, Qatar, Turkey, and other members of the EU supporting the UN back government in Tripoli. War and destabilization has plagued the peoples of Libya since 2011. The absence of real organization of the people by Gaddafi took a heavy toll on Libyan society.

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Gender and Violence

Mojab¹

2021

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

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President Nicolas] Sarkozy was triggered more by economic and commercial interests than by humanitarian concerns." I hope we are not seeing the same film all over again. The position of imperial states was very different from the states of the nonaligned world. Countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, and South Africa praised Gaddafi, while in most parts of Africa, there are those who call for exposure on the role of France in Libya. After NATO declared victory, there were elaborate plans for the reform agenda in Libya. The supporters of Gaddafi were persecuted, and black Libyans were killed as mercenaries. The NTC orchestrated an elaborate process for parliamentary elections and a new government in 2012, but the case of the Libyan Investment Authority against Goldman Sachs thrust Libya again into war until the British High Court Judgment in 2016. Since then, the United Nations has attempted to create the basis for a government of National Unity, but the differing external forces that had come together to defeat Gaddafi could not agree. Libya is now caught in a war with Egypt, France, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia supporting one faction led by general Haftar, while Italy, Qatar, Turkey, and other members of the EU supporting the UN back government in Tripoli. War and destabilization has plagued the peoples of Libya since 2011. The absence of real organization of the people by Gaddafi took a heavy toll on Libyan society.

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Activists, Lobbyists, and Suicide Bombers: Lessons from the Palestinian Women’s Movement

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Gendering Resistance: Multiple Faces of the Kurdish Women's Struggle

Gendering Resistance: Multiple Faces of the Kurdish Women's Struggle

Global Finance Capital and Third World Debt

Gender and Violence

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