Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility Under Occupation

This groundbreaking volume takes an insightful look at how entire households, families, and individuals cope, negotiate their lives, and plan to achieve goals in Occupied Palestine. Contributors raise critical questions about such issues as tradition vs. modernity and the socio-cultural consequences of emigration. Living Palestine posits that household dynamics (i.e., kin-based marriage, fertility decisions, children's education, and living arrangements) cannot be fully grasped unless linked to the traumas of the past and worries of the present. Likewise, that family strategies for survival and social mobility under occupation are swept up in the tide of history that engulfs the world in which Palestinians live and struggle as individuals, households, and as a society. Living Palestine is drawn from an expansive 1999 research project of the Institute for Women's Studies at Birzeit University

Author: Lisa Taraki
Publisher: Syracuse University Publications in Continuin
Published: 11/01/2006
Pages: 330
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.34w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780815631347

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 151

About the Author
Lisa Taraki is associate professor of sociology at Birzeit University. She has published articles in books and professional journals on Palestinian mass organizations and the Palestinian national movement, Jordanian Islamists and gender relations, and various aspects of gender relations in Middle Eastern and Palestinian Society. She has also contributed to several commissioned reports on socioeconomic and gender issues in Palestine. She is currently researching urban life in Palestine, and the chapter coauthored with Giacaman in this volume is part of this effort.