Gender and Nation Building in the Middle East
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- ISBN 9781848854819
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 144 x 218mm
- Publication Date: 22 Nov 2011
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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From Mandate Palestine to refugee camps in Jordan today, generations of Palestinians have been affected by the reach of the state into their everyday lives. Here Elise Young offers an analysis of the politics of state building in the Middle East, viewed through the lens of health. Young argues that gendered, raced and classed constructions of health, as evidenced in malaria eradication campaigns and the regularization of midwifery, are central to such state building processes. She draws on archival documents to uncover British medical administration and American involvement during the Mandate, and in-depth oral histories of Palestinian women refugees in Jordan. Making a powerful case for an alternative historiography of the region, this book will be invaluable for all those interested in Middle East history and politics, nationalism, gender, public health and refugees.
Elise G. Young is a Middle East historian and Professor in the History Department at Westfield State University. She has conducted research in Palestine, Israel, and Jordan, and has written extensively on women and modern nation-state building in those regions. She is the author of Keepers of the History: Women and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, an innovative feminist historiography of the war over Palestine.
