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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455317303321

Autore

Naguib Nefissa <1960->

Titolo

Women, water and memory [[electronic resource] ] : recasting lives in Palestine / / by Nefissa Naguib

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-39919-5

9786612399190

90-474-4256-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world, , 1570-7628 ; ; v. 6

Disciplina

305.48/8927400904

Soggetti

Women, Palestinian Arab - Social life and customs

Women storytellers - Palestine

Women, Palestinian Arab - Social conditions

Women and religion - Palestine

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-167) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The women and their stories -- Chapter One. Musharafah -- Chapter Two. Palestine—A contested site -- Chapter Three. Women, water and memory -- Chapter Four. Being in the world -- Chapter Five. Women and places outside -- Chapter Six. Telling STories -- Conclusion and further reflections -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book tells a different story about water. Against the backdrop of the end of the Ottoman Empire to the Palestinian uprisings, old Palestinian women recount life before and after piped water. While talking about fetching and managing household water, women also talked about being women. Women, Water and Memory speaks of many different lives. We hear stories about women's own strength and beauty, and about the woman who married a man whose ugly face made her sick. While one woman married the man “she cared for”, another was relieved that her husband died when she was too old to be forced to remarry. We learn about the joy they feel each time they



dance at a wedding, the sheer satisfaction of lighting a cigarette, the loyalty and shared despair towards families with members in prison, and about the tears of sorrow at each death and the delight at each birth.