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Women's Political Activism in Palestine:

Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival
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A sobering yet optimistic view of the ongoing conflict
 
During the last twenty years, Palestinian women have practiced creative and often informal everyday forms of political activism. Sophie Richter-Devroe reflects on their struggles to bring about social and political change.
 
Richter-Devroe's ethnographic approach draws from revealing in-depth interviews and participant observation in Palestine. The result: a forceful critique of mainstream conflict resolution methods and the failed woman-to-woman peacebuilding projects so lauded around the world. The liberal faith in dialogue as core of "the political" and the assumption that women's "nurturing" nature makes them superior peacemakers, collapse in the face of past and ongoing Israeli state violences.
 
Instead, women confront Israeli settler colonialism directly and indirectly in their popular and everyday acts of resistance. Richter-Devroe's analysis zooms in on the intricate dynamics of daily life in Palestine, tracing the emergent politics that women articulate and practice there. In shedding light on contemporary gendered "politics from below" in the region, the book invites a rethinking of the workings, shapes, and boundaries of the political.
"This brilliant book challenges successfully common theoretical approaches to the ongoing struggle in Palestine. Richter-Devore takes the analysis of women's resistance in Palestine into new intriguing and fascinating areas of inquiry. This book successfully combines a very thorough theoretical examination with a very humane narration of life in Palestine under the Israeli colonization. A must-read for students, scholars, and anyone looking to shed new light on the evergreen topic of Palestinian resistance."--Ilan Pappé, author of The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel
 
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