TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Both an Arab and a woman'
T2 - Gendered, racialised experiences of female Palestinian citizens of Israel
AU - Herzog, Hanna
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements: I wish to thank Kamilia Badar-Araf, Hannah Aviram, Dina Roginsky and Gili Avrahami in various stages of the research. Special thanks to Ora Haviv, who believed in the importance of the project. I thank Yehouda Shenhav for his insightful comments on a previous version. The part of the study on Israeli-Palestinian women in the peace movement was supported by the Tami Steinmetz Centre for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University; The Harry Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Israel Foundation Trustees and The Golda Meir Institute at Tel Aviv University. The part on the Palestinian educated women was supported by the Israeli Ministry of Science.
PY - 2004/1
Y1 - 2004/1
N2 - Following feminist and postcolonial discourses, this paper uses the concept of 'everyday experience' as a tool to trace the social world of educated Palestinian women in Israel. The term refers to the complex array of these women's experiences in racialised and gendered social sites, as well as within the class, religious, and ethnic contexts in the subordinated group and its relations with the dominant Jewish group. Based on 108 in-depth interviews with Palestinian women citizens of Israel, the paper claims that educated Palestinian women are located in a 'third place' between cultural, gender, class, national and racial structures that generates a continual ambivalence. Within this marginal, 'unhomely' space women negotiate their own identities and challenge dominant social definitions. Women create various modes of interim spaces and multi-dimensional, shifting identities for themselves. The ambivalent attitudes generated by the women's experiences expose the possibility of shedding categorising markers. The omnipresent existence of the gendered, racialised regime of knowledge makes every place a potential site of subversion and resistance.
AB - Following feminist and postcolonial discourses, this paper uses the concept of 'everyday experience' as a tool to trace the social world of educated Palestinian women in Israel. The term refers to the complex array of these women's experiences in racialised and gendered social sites, as well as within the class, religious, and ethnic contexts in the subordinated group and its relations with the dominant Jewish group. Based on 108 in-depth interviews with Palestinian women citizens of Israel, the paper claims that educated Palestinian women are located in a 'third place' between cultural, gender, class, national and racial structures that generates a continual ambivalence. Within this marginal, 'unhomely' space women negotiate their own identities and challenge dominant social definitions. Women create various modes of interim spaces and multi-dimensional, shifting identities for themselves. The ambivalent attitudes generated by the women's experiences expose the possibility of shedding categorising markers. The omnipresent existence of the gendered, racialised regime of knowledge makes every place a potential site of subversion and resistance.
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U2 - 10.1080/1350463042000190994
DO - 10.1080/1350463042000190994
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AN - SCOPUS:1842429537
SN - 1350-4630
VL - 10
SP - 53
EP - 82
JO - Social Identities
JF - Social Identities
IS - 1
ER -
