Summary
The author of Chapter 8, “Multiple Jeopardy: Gender and Liberation in Palestine”, of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, which argues Palestinian women and queers are oppressed jointly by Israel’s apartheid and by patriarchy, and that their circumstances can only be addressed through an anticolonial approach free of imperialist feminism and Islamophobia (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1525-1597).
Details
- The chapter rejects Western questions about Palestinian women’s lives in a conservative society as misguided, counterposing Israel — which denies every Palestinian basic rights — as the greater oppressor (lines 1525-1545).
- Its history of women’s resistance runs from the 1920s marches and the Arab Women’s Union through Hind al-Husseini’s orphanage to the women-led First Intifada of Julia Bacha’s Naila and the Uprising (lines 1549-1585).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Hind al-Husseini, Razan Najjar, Rasmea Odeh, Pinkwashing, Sumoud