Women and Conflict in the Middle East: Palestinian Refugees and the Response to Violence (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) - Hardcover

Holt, Maria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780761007 ISBN 13: 9781780761008

Publisher: I.B.Tauris, 2014

Synopsis

Women in conflict zones face a wide range of violence: from physical and psychological trauma to political, economic and social disadvantage. And the sources of the violence are varied also: from the 'public' violence of the enemy to the more 'private' violence of the family. Maria Holt uses her research gathered in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon and in the West Bank to look at the forms of violence suffered by women in the context of the wider conflict around them. Drawing on first-hand accounts of women who have either participated in, been victims of or bystanders to violence, Women and Conflict in the Middle East highlights the complex situation of these refugees, and explores how many of them become involved in resistance activities. It thus makes essential reading for students of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as those interested in the gender dimension of conflict.

About this title

About the Author:

Maria Holt is Senior Lecturer in the Democracy and Islam Programme, part of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster, London, UK. She is the co-author of Without Glory in Arabia: The British Retreat from Aden (I.B.Tauris).

About this edition

• Publisher: I.B.Tauris
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1780761007
• ISBN 13: 9781780761008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288