Falastiniyyat (a Century Of Palestinian Feminisms)
By (author) Elia, Nada
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By (author) Elia, Nada
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FROM EARLY PIONEERS TO MODERN-DAY REVOLUTIONARIES: THE RESILIENCE AND CENTRALITY OF FEMINISTS IN THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT
Description:
Women have been central to every phase of Palestinian resistance. Here Nada Elia recovers the long-suppressed story of Palestinian women''s organizing from 1929 to the present. Far from being a Western import, local feminism consistently linked personal empowerment with collective liberation, anticolonial struggle with social transformation. In the time of the Mandate, Matiel Mogannam confronted British imperialism through the Arab Women''s Congress. In the following decades, Camille Odeh built Arab American solidarity networks. Their legacy continues today in the work of contemporary activists fighting femicide and pinkwashing throughout the world.
Falastiniyyat rescues Palestinian feminism from obscurity. Furthermore, Elia argues that these activists were pioneers of a uniquely intersectional, antiimperial feminist politics.
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Provides a valuable addition to knowledge about Palestinian women''s movements in the national struggle for Palestinian liberation. Informative and well researched.
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A paradigm-shifting book. Essential reading for classrooms, activists, and anyone interested in Palestinian liberation, Palestinian feminism, or global and decolonial feminist movements.
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Elia weaves narrative, urgency, and intimacy spanning a century and continents to provide a remarkable history of Palestinian feminism. Elia''s own life in struggle makes this text vibrate, its characters jumping from the pages, beseeching us to join them in their noble and unyielding commitment to our collective liberation. To free the land and everyone on it.
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Never more needed than now, Falastiniyyat is a beautifully written, essential text for everyone in search of peace and justice in our time
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Readers looking for a women-centric introduction to the history of Palestinian resistance will value this.
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In this urgent and necessary volume, founding member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective Nada Elia presents a vital, nuanced history of Palestinian women and the feminisms that have guided their continual fight for liberation. Beginning in 1929, this volume illustrates how Palestine was - and continues to be - a feminist issue.
Biographical note:
Nada Elia is a diasporic Palestinian scholar and activist whose work, both in the classroom and the streets, focuses on exposing and redressing structural systems of oppression. She is the author of Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine. Nada is a founding member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, and currently serves on its Coordinating Committee.
Promotional headline:
FROM EARLY PIONEERS TO MODERN-DAY REVOLUTIONARIES: THE RESILIENCE AND CENTRALITY OF FEMINISTS IN THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT
Feature:
Falastiniyyat rescues Palestinian feminism from obscurity. Furthermore, Elia argues that these activists were pioneers of a uniquely intersectional, antiimperial feminist politics.
Short description/annotation:
FROM EARLY PIONEERS TO MODERN-DAY REVOLUTIONARIES: THE RESILIENCE AND CENTRALITY OF FEMINISTS IN THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT
Description:
Women have been central to every phase of Palestinian resistance. Here Nada Elia recovers the long-suppressed story of Palestinian women''s organizing from 1929 to the present. Far from being a Western import, local feminism consistently linked personal empowerment with collective liberation, anticolonial struggle with social transformation. In the time of the Mandate, Matiel Mogannam confronted British imperialism through the Arab Women''s Congress. In the following decades, Camille Odeh built Arab American solidarity networks. Their legacy continues today in the work of contemporary activists fighting femicide and pinkwashing throughout the world.
Falastiniyyat rescues Palestinian feminism from obscurity. Furthermore, Elia argues that these activists were pioneers of a uniquely intersectional, antiimperial feminist politics.
Review quote:
Provides a valuable addition to knowledge about Palestinian women''s movements in the national struggle for Palestinian liberation. Informative and well researched.
Review quote:
A paradigm-shifting book. Essential reading for classrooms, activists, and anyone interested in Palestinian liberation, Palestinian feminism, or global and decolonial feminist movements.
Review quote:
Elia weaves narrative, urgency, and intimacy spanning a century and continents to provide a remarkable history of Palestinian feminism. Elia''s own life in struggle makes this text vibrate, its characters jumping from the pages, beseeching us to join them in their noble and unyielding commitment to our collective liberation. To free the land and everyone on it.
Review quote:
Never more needed than now, Falastiniyyat is a beautifully written, essential text for everyone in search of peace and justice in our time
Review quote:
Readers looking for a women-centric introduction to the history of Palestinian resistance will value this.
Review quote:
In this urgent and necessary volume, founding member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective Nada Elia presents a vital, nuanced history of Palestinian women and the feminisms that have guided their continual fight for liberation. Beginning in 1929, this volume illustrates how Palestine was - and continues to be - a feminist issue.
Biographical note:
Nada Elia is a diasporic Palestinian scholar and activist whose work, both in the classroom and the streets, focuses on exposing and redressing structural systems of oppression. She is the author of Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine. Nada is a founding member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, and currently serves on its Coordinating Committee.
Promotional headline:
FROM EARLY PIONEERS TO MODERN-DAY REVOLUTIONARIES: THE RESILIENCE AND CENTRALITY OF FEMINISTS IN THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT
Feature:
Falastiniyyat rescues Palestinian feminism from obscurity. Furthermore, Elia argues that these activists were pioneers of a uniquely intersectional, antiimperial feminist politics.
