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Author_Aitemad Muhanna
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Community Based Household Survey
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Extended Household
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Gazan Family
Gazan Society
Gazan Women
Gender Relational Dynamics
Humanitarian Aid
Income Generating Activities
International Humanitarian Law
Intersectional Feminist Framework
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Israeli Labour Market
Israeli Military Occupation
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Livelihood Crisis
Married Woman
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Mother Son Relationship
Nuclear Households
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Palestinian National Authority
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Prevailing Gender Order
Primary Family Provider
Selling Household Assets
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Women's Self-sacrifice
Women’s Self-sacrifice
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780367601256
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Drawing on rich interview material and adopting a life history approach, this book examines the agency of women living in insecure and uncertain conflict situations. It explores the effects of the Israeli policy of closure against Gaza and the resulting humanitarian crisis in relation to gender relations and gender subjectivity. With attention to the changing roles of men in the household and community as a result of the loss of male employment, the author explores the extension of poor women’s mobility, particularly that of young wives with dependent children, for whom the meaning of agency has shifted from being providers in the domestic sphere to becoming publicly dependent on humanitarian aid. Without conflating women’s agency with resistance to patriarchy, Agency and Gender in Gaza extends the concept of agency to include its subjective and intersubjective elements, shedding light on the recent distortion of the traditional gender order and the reasons for which women resist the masculine power that they have acquired as a result. An empirically grounded examination of the attempt to maintain the meaning of social existence through the preservation of socially constructed images of masculinity and femininity, this book will be of interest to social scientists with interests in gender studies, masculinities and the sociology of the family.
Aitemad Muhanna is Research Fellow at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
