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A History of Confinement in Palestine: The Prison WebWomen, a Separate Experience?

A History of Confinement in Palestine: The Prison Web: Women, a Separate Experience? [In Palestine, from 1967 onwards, women have been a small minority in prison, most of the time isolated from communication channels between prisons and with the outside world. This chapter shows how they have built a society apart in detention, initially structured around their activism in secular parties (Fatah, left-wing parties) and feminism. Like men, they have made prison a place for political education. Though, the perception of their gender in Palestinian society and the instrumentalization of gender roles by the Israeli intelligence services and prison administration have built specific experiences whose stakes have been to strengthen their engagement while resisting the prison stigma. For the first generations, carceral femininities were often virilized femininities. However, women’s leadership has asserted itself. After Oslo, their mobilizations have diversified as did their relationship to their bodies and to violence. During the repression of the second Intifada, some women launched martyrdom operations. Women belonging to religious parties (Hamas, Islamic Jihad) joined secular female activists in prison. Over time, with the banalization of the prison experience, new ways of living beyond prison emerged. Experiences of activism and militancy and of prison have changed: they are less perceived and lived as marks and become bearers of transformations in gender relations. ] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of Confinement in Palestine: The Prison WebWomen, a Separate Experience?

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
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978-3-031-08708-0
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159 –202
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10.1007/978-3-031-08709-7_4
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[In Palestine, from 1967 onwards, women have been a small minority in prison, most of the time isolated from communication channels between prisons and with the outside world. This chapter shows how they have built a society apart in detention, initially structured around their activism in secular parties (Fatah, left-wing parties) and feminism. Like men, they have made prison a place for political education. Though, the perception of their gender in Palestinian society and the instrumentalization of gender roles by the Israeli intelligence services and prison administration have built specific experiences whose stakes have been to strengthen their engagement while resisting the prison stigma. For the first generations, carceral femininities were often virilized femininities. However, women’s leadership has asserted itself. After Oslo, their mobilizations have diversified as did their relationship to their bodies and to violence. During the repression of the second Intifada, some women launched martyrdom operations. Women belonging to religious parties (Hamas, Islamic Jihad) joined secular female activists in prison. Over time, with the banalization of the prison experience, new ways of living beyond prison emerged. Experiences of activism and militancy and of prison have changed: they are less perceived and lived as marks and become bearers of transformations in gender relations. ]

Published: Aug 30, 2022

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