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UNINA9910455317303321 |
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Naguib Nefissa <1960-> |
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Women, water and memory [[electronic resource] ] : recasting lives in Palestine / / by Nefissa Naguib |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009 |
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1-282-39919-5 |
9786612399190 |
90-474-4256-3 |
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1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world, , 1570-7628 ; ; v. 6 |
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Women, Palestinian Arab - Social life and customs |
Women storytellers - Palestine |
Women, Palestinian Arab - Social conditions |
Women and religion - Palestine |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-167) and index. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910495233903321 |
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Graham Kirk Robert |
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British subversive propaganda during the Second World War : Germany, national socialism and the Political Warfare Executive / / Kirk Robert Graham |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Great Britain |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for British Subversive Propaganda during the Second World War -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: British Propagandists and the German Problem -- The View from Woburn Abbey: The Political Culture of PWE -- The Brazen Horde: British Propagandists and the Course of German History -- Germany on the Couch: The Role of Psychology and the Social Sciences in the Development of Subversive Propaganda -- No Man so Lecherous as the German: Nazi Perversion and German Masculinity in British Subversive Propaganda -- A Rebellion Against the Divinely Appointed Order: Totalitarian Theory, Secular Religions, and Religious Anti-Fascism in British Subversive Propaganda -- The Logic of Subversive Propaganda -- 2 The View from Woburn Abbey: The Political Culture of PWE -- Gentleman Amateurs and "the Other Germany" -- The Significance of Germanophobia -- Filling the Ranks, Affirming the Orthodoxy -- Conclusion -- 3 The Brazen Horde: British Propagandists and the Course of German History -- Hermann |
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Rauschning and the Two Germanies Theory -- Robert Vansittart and Transatlantic Germanophobia -- Germanophobic Propaganda and the Limits of Vansittartist History -- German Anti-Fascists and the Value of Social History -- A New Europe -- Conclusion -- 4 Germany on the Couch: The Role of Psychology and the Social Sciences in the Development of Subversive Propaganda -- Psychological Judo -- The Push for Pure Psychology -- J.T. MacCurdy and Henry Dicks -- The German National Character and the Nazi Mind -- Conclusion -- 5 No Man so Lecherous as the German: Nazi Perversion and German Masculinity in British Subversive Propaganda -- Pornography and the German Mind -- A Gendered Pathology -- Pigdogs and Englishmen -- A New Answer to the German Question -- Conclusion. |
6 A Rebellion Against the Divinely Appointed Order: Totalitarian Theory, Secular Religions, and Religious Anti-Fascism in British Subversive Propaganda -- Kicking Against the Pricks -- Ersatzreligion and the Origins of Totalitarian Theory -- Black Sabbath -- Towards a Catholic Donauraum -- Conclusion -- 7 The Logic of Subversive Propaganda -- A Contested Legacy -- Winning the Peace -- Anti-Semitism and the Morality of Resistance -- Sowing Dissent? -- Conclusion -- 8 Epilogue: Breaking Hearts and Minds -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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