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Defying the Plan: Intimate Politics Among Palestinian Women in Israel

Defying the Plan: Intimate Politics Among Palestinian Women in Israel

Zinngrebe, Kim Jezabel

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Religion General Israel & Palestine HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0253062500
ISBN13: 9780253062505
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Jul 12 2022
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Living under settler colonialism and patriarchal oppressions, Palestinian women in Israel are expected to operate even the most intimate aspects of their lives according to what some call The Plan, which dictates everything from clothing, marriage, religion, and sex to how children are born and raised.

In Defying The Plan, Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe draws from a series of moving interviews to reveal that despite various forms of intertwined oppressions by both the Israeli state and Palestinian society, Palestinian women show defiance by the quotidian choices they make in their own intimate lives under occupation, which, Zinngrebe argues, cannot be perceived as a mere corollary but constitute a pivotal and contested terrain of the struggle between settler and colonized. Defying The Plan explores such issues as the segregation of sexual education in Palestine; the politics of dress, menstruation, and tattoos; and the roles of class, feminism, and race. Importantly, she highlights the intersectional experiences of women typically excluded from existing accounts, such as Black Palestinian women, women with disabilities, unmarried and divorced women, Bedouin women, and LGBTQI women.

The stories gathered in Defying The Plan trace and unpack settler colonial power at the level of the intimate and native women's various practices of defiance.

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