American Feminist In Palestine: The Intifada Years - Softcover

Gluck, Sherna

9781566391917: American Feminist In Palestine: The Intifada Years

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566391911 ISBN 13: 9781566391917

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1994

A personal journey forces the author to confront her Jewish identity and Western feminism. Weaving together anecdotes, interviews, and observations, she captures the vitality of the early days of the intifada and the problems that later began to plague the movement after the Gulf War.

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Book Description:

In December 1987, with the outbreak of the intifada, American TV beamed dramatic pictures of Palestinian children and older women taking to the streets of Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem to confront Israeli soldiers. News stories also reported how a small band of Israeli women dressed in black were taking to the streets in West Jerusalem to challenge their government's policy. Moved by these images and emboldened by the example of the Israelis, Sherna Gluck broke a silence she, like so many Jewish Americans, had kept for so long. Her trip to Occupied Palestine one year later began a journey that introduced her not only to the horrors of Israeli occupation, but to the creativity of the Palestinian resistance movement and its transformative potential, especially for women.

Highly sympathetic to the Palestinians, but with vigilantly critical observation, An American Feminist in Palestine recounts the author's experiences over the course of three years as she returned repeatedly to a number of villages and refugee camps. Weaving together anecdotes, interviews, and candid observations, she captures the vitality of the early days of the intifada and the problems that later began to plague the movement after the Gulf War.

About the Author:

Sherna Berger Gluck directs the Oral History Program and teaches in the Women's Studies Program at California State University, Long Beach. Her previously published books include Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History (with Daphne Patai).

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