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Agency and Gender in Gaza

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Agency and Gender in Gaza book

Masculinity, Femininity and Family during the Second Intifada

Agency and Gender in Gaza

DOI link for Agency and Gender in Gaza

Agency and Gender in Gaza book

Masculinity, Femininity and Family during the Second Intifada
ByAitemad Muhanna
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 1 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315566238
Pages 222 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315566238
SubjectsArea Studies, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Muhanna, A. (2013). Agency and Gender in Gaza. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315566238

Drawing on rich interview material and adopting a life history approach, this book examines the agency of women living in insecure and uncertain conflict situations. It explores the effects of the Israeli policy of closure against Gaza and the resulting humanitarian crisis in relation to gender relations and gender subjectivity. With attention to the changing roles of men in the household and community as a result of the loss of male employment, the author explores the extension of poor women’s mobility, particularly that of young wives with dependent children, for whom the meaning of agency has shifted from being providers in the domestic sphere to becoming publicly dependent on humanitarian aid. Without conflating women’s agency with resistance to patriarchy, Agency and Gender in Gaza extends the concept of agency to include its subjective and intersubjective elements, shedding light on the recent distortion of the traditional gender order and the reasons for which women resist the masculine power that they have acquired as a result. An empirically grounded examination of the attempt to maintain the meaning of social existence through the preservation of socially constructed images of masculinity and femininity, this book will be of interest to social scientists with interests in gender studies, masculinities and the sociology of the family.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|28 pages

The Contemporary History of Gazan Society and the Complexity of Gender

chapter 2|26 pages

Agency and Meaning in Women’s Lives: A Comparative Analytical Perspective

chapter 3|34 pages

Family Structure and Gender Relations in Gaza under Israeli Military Occupation

chapter 4|40 pages

The Impact of the Second Intifada on the Economics of Everyday Life

chapter 5|34 pages

Gender Dynamics and the Crisis of Masculinity during the Second Intifada

chapter 6|20 pages

Conclusion: Gazan Women – between the Masculinising of their Enactment and the Feminising of their Selfhood

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