Palestine’s Absent Cities: Gender, Memoricide, and the Silencing of Urban Palestinian Memory

Manar Hasan

doi:10.4324/9781003269090-16

Palestine’s Absent Cities: Gender, Memoricide, and the Silencing of Urban Palestinian Memory

Manar Hasan

Program of Gender Studies

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Before the Nakba, a significant process of urbanization had occurred in Palestine, leading to substantial changes in gender relations and women’s status. However, following the 1948 war, the existence of a vibrant urban social and gendered reality in Palestine was dismissed and erased by both Palestinian and Zionist narratives; it was replaced by exclusively rural memory. This chapter analyses how Palestinian society in Israel accepted the Zionist version of history, according to which the modernization of Arab society in Israel, especially gendered modernity, resulted from Jewish proximity and steps adopted by the state.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Entangled Histories in Palestine/Israel
Subtitle of host publication	Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	261-277
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9781040000212
ISBN (Print)	9781032215860
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003269090-16
State	Published - 1 Jan 2024

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