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



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Autore: Naguib Nefissa <1960-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Women, water and memory [[electronic resource] ] : recasting lives in Palestine / / by Nefissa Naguib Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
Disciplina: 305.48/8927400904
Soggetto topico: Women, Palestinian Arab - Social life and customs
Women storytellers - Palestine
Women, Palestinian Arab - Social conditions
Women and religion - Palestine
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Women, water and memory  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-39919-5
9786612399190
90-474-4256-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910455317303321
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Serie: Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; ; v. 6.