JouRnal of Palestine studies GenDereD memorY Women, Water and memory: recasting Lives in Palestine, by Nefissa Naguib. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. xvi +162 pages. Bibliography to p. 167. Index to p. 173. $87.00 paper. Reviewed by Isabelle Humphries isabelle Humphries has conducted doctoral research on the politics of memory among Palestinian refugees in the Galilee and coauthored a chapter on gendered Nakba memory with Laleh Khalili in Ahmad Saâdi and Lila Abu-Lughod (eds.), Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory (Columbia University Press, 2007). In vivid prose evoking the climate, smells, and tastes of an unnamed village in the hills beyond Ramallah, Nefissa Naguibâs engrossing monograph examines womenâs âlives as livedâ through the prism of water. Utilizing narratives about fetching spring water as a starting point, Women, Water and Memory: Recasting Lives in Palestine presents a gendered critique of modernization in a Palestinian rural community, which, like other Palestinian communities, has lived for decades under military occupation. Israelâs wielding of control over Palestinian water resources is a fundamental obstacle to peace and justice, and as such is usually discussed on a grand political and economic scale supported by important but faceless development statistics. Through a gendered
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Gendered Memory
Humphries, Isabelle
Follow Journal of Palestine Studies
, Volume 39 (3)
University of California Press – Apr 1, 2010
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