Bibliography on Palestinian Women
- Abdo, Nahla. “Women and the Intifada: Gender, Class and National Liberation.” Race & Class 32, 4 (1991): 19-34.
- Abdul-Jawwad, Islah. “The Evolution of the Political Role of the Palestinian Women’s Movement in the Uprising.” In The Palestinians: New Directions, edited by Michael Hudson. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 1990.
- Abu-Zubi, Nahla. Family Women and Social Change in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case. Toronto: Scholar’s Press, 1987.
- Antonius, Soraya. “Prisoners for Palestine: A List of Women Political Prisoners,” Journal of Palestine Studies 9, 3 (1980): 29-80.
- Antonius, Soraya. “Fighting on Two Fronts: Conversations with Palestinian Women.” Journal of Palestine Studies 31 (Spring 1979): 26-45.
- Ashrawi, Hanan. This Side of Peace: A Personal Account. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
- Ashrawi, Hanan. “The Politics of Cultural Revival.” In The Palestinians: New Directions, edited by Michael Hudson. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 1990.
- Assaf, Karen. “Environmental Problems Affecting Palestinian Women Under Occupation.” In Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change, edited by Tamar Mayer. New York: Routledge, 1994.
- Augustin, Abba, ed. Palestinian Women: Identity and Experience. London: Zed Books, 1993
- Bendt, Ingala and James Downing. We Shall Return--Women of Palestine. London: Zed/Lawrence Hill, 1980.
- Bouvard, Marguerite Guzman. Women Reshaping Human Rights: How Extraordinary Activists Are Changing the World. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1996. Chapter 6 on Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi.
- Cygielman, Victor and Leila Dabdoub. “Growing Pains: An Interview with Suad Amiry.” Palestine-Israel Journal II, 3 (1995): 26-31.
- Dajani, Souad. “Between National and Social Liberation: The Palestinian Women’s Movement in the Israeli Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.” In Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change, edited by Tamar Mayer. New York: Routledge, 1994.
- Dajani, Souad. “Palestinian Women Under Israeli Occupation.” In Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers, edited by Judith Tucker. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
- Emmett, Ayala H. Our Sisters’ Promised Land: Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
- Espanioly, Nabila. “Palestinian Women in Israel: Identity in Light of the Occupation.” In Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change, edited by Tamar Mayer. New York: Routledge, 1994.
- Espanioly, Nabila and Dalia Sachs. “Peace Process: Israeli and Palestinian Women.” Bridges (Fall 1991): 99-111.
- Fawry, Didar. “Palestinian Women in Palestine.” In Women of the Mediterranean, edited by Monique Gadant, translated from the French by A. M. Berrett. London: Zed Books, 1986.
- Ghanem, Hunaida. “Palestinian Women Political Prisoners.” Palestine-Israel Journal II, 3 (1995): 32-36.
- Giacaman, Rita. “Searching for Strategies: The Palestinian Women’s Movement in the New Era.” Middle East Report 186 (Jan.-Feb. 1994): 22-26.
- Giacaman, Rita. “Palestinian Women in the Uprising: From Followers to Leaders.” Journal of Refugee Studies 2, 12 (1989): 136-46.
- Giacaman, Rita and Penny Johnson. “Palestinian Women: Building Barricades and Breaking Barriers.” In Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation, edited by Zachary Lochman and Joel Beinin. Boston: South End Press, 1989.
- Giacaman, Rita. Life and Health in Three Palestinian Villages. London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Ithaca Press, 1988.
- Goodwin, Jan. Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994, pp. 289-320.
- Gorkin, Michael and Rafiqa Othman. Three Mothers, Three Daughters: Palestinian Women’s Stories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
- Haj, Samira. “Palestinian Women and Patriarchal Relations.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14, 4 (Summer 1992): 761-778.
- Hammami, Rema. “Women, the Hijab, and the Intifada.” Middle East Report 164/165 (1990): 24-31.
- Hammami, Rema. “Women’s Participation in the Intifada, A Critical Overview.” pp. 73-83. In The Intifada and Some Women’s Social Issues: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Al-Quds Al-Sharif/Jerusalem on December 14, 1990. Ramallah, West Bank: Women’s Studies Committee/Bisan Center for Research and Development.
- Hiltermann, Joost. Behind the Intifada: Labor and Women’s Movement in the Occupied Territories. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
- Hiltermann, Joost. “The Women’s Movement during the Uprising.” Journal of Palestine Studies 20, 3 (Spring 1991), pp. 48-57.
- Hiltermann, Joost. “Trade Unions and Women’s Committees: Sustaining the Movement, Creating Space.” Middle East Report (May-August 1990).
- Hindiyeh-Mani, Suha, Afaf Ghazawneh, and Subhiyyeh Idris. “Women Street Peddlers: The Phenomenon of Bastat in the Palestinian Informal Economy.” In Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change, edited by Tamar Mayer. New York: Routledge, 1994.
- Holt, Maria. Half the People: Women, History and the Palestinian Intifada. Jerusalem, 1992.
- Ismail, Noha S. “The Palestinian Women’s Struggle for Independence: A Historical Perspective.” In The Third Wave: Feminist Perspectives on Racism, edited by Jacqui Alexander, Lisa Albrecht, Sharon Day, Mab Segrest, and Norma Alacorn. New York: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1993.
- Jad, Islah. “From Salons to the Popular Committees: Palestinian Women, 1919-1989.” In Intifada: Palestine at the Crossroads, edited by Jamal R. Nassar and Roger Heacock. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990.
- Jammal, Laila. Contributions by Palestinian Women to the National Struggle for Liberation. Washington, D.C.: Middle East Public Relations, 1985.
- Kanaana, Sharif. The Role of Women in Intifada Legends. Contemporary Legend (1993): 37-61.
- Katherine, Adrien. “Custom, Religion and Rights: The Future Legal Status of Palestinian Women,” Harvard International Law Journal 35, 1 (Winter 1994).
- Kattan Salman, Hind. Palestinian Women and Economic and Social Development in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Geneva: UNCTAD, United Nations, 1993.
- Kawar, Amal. Daughters of Palestine: Leading Women and the Palestinian National Movement. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996.
- Kawar, Amal. “National Mobilization, War Conditions, and Gender Consciousness,” Arab Studies Quarterly 15 (Spring 1993): 53-67.
- Khaled, Leila. My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary, edited by George Hajjar. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1973.
- Kuttab, Daoud. “Honorary Ambassador: An Interview with Hanan Ashrawi.” Palestine-Israel Journal II, 3 (1995): 56-62.
- Layoun, Mary. “Telling Spaces: Palestinian Women and The Engendering of National Narratives.” In Nationalisms & Sexualities, edited by Andrew Parker, Mary Russo, Doris Summer, and Patricia Yaeger. New York: Routledge, 1992.
- Mahshi, Suheir Azzouni. “A Free Palestinian, A Free Woman.” Palestine-Israel Journal II, 3 (1995): 7-12.
- Najjab, Salwa. “Women’s Health in Palestine: The Need for a Holistic Approach.” Palestine-Israel Journal II, 3 (1995): 43-47.
- Najjar, Orayb Aref with Kitty Warnock. Portraits of Palestinian Women. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992.
- Peteet, Julie. Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
- Peteet, Julie. “No Going Back--Women and the Palestinian Movement,” MERIP Middle East Research and Information Project, 146 (May-June 1986).
- Rockwell, Susan. “Palestinian Women Workers in the Israeli-Occupied Gaza Strip.” Journal of Palestine Studies 14, 2 (Winter 1985): 114-136.
- Sabbagh, Suha, ed. Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
- Sabbagh, Suha, ed. Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1996.
- Sabbagh, Suha. “Palestinian Women Writers and the Intifada.” Social Text : Theory/Culture/Ideology 22 (1989): 1-19.
- Sabbagh, Suha and Ghada Talhami, eds. Images and Reality: Palestinian Women under Occupation and in the Diaspora. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Arab Women’s Studies, 1990.
- Sayeh, Mai. “Choosing the Revolution.” In Women of the Mediterranean, edited by Monique Gadant, translated from the French by A. M. Berrett. London: Zed Books, 1986.
- Sayigh, Rosemary. “Encounters with Palestinian Women Under Occupation.” Journal of Palestine Studies 40, 4 (Summer 1981): 3-26.
- Sharoni, Simona. Gender and the Israeli Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women’s Resistance. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
- Sharoni, Simona. “Every Woman is an Occupied Territory: The Politics of Militarism and Sexism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” Journal of Gender Studies 1, 4 (1992): 447-462.
- Strum, Phillipa. The Women Are Marching: The Second Sex and the Palestinian Revolution. New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 1992.
- Strum, Phillipa. “Women’s Organizations in Palestine.” In Directory of Palestinian Women’s Organizations, edited by The Women’s Studies Committee/Bisan Center for Research and Development. Ramallah: Hussary Press, 1993.
- Tawil, Raymonda Hawa. My Home, My Prison. London: Zed Books, 1983. Also published by Holt, Rinehardt, and Winston in New York in 1979.
- Thornhill, Teresa, ed. Making Women Talk: The Interrogation of Palestinian Detainees by the Israeli General Security Services. London: Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights, 1992.
- Usher, G. & R. Giacamen. “Palestinian Women, the Intifida, and the State of Independence. Race and Class 34, 3 (January-March 1993): 31-43.
- Warnock, Kitty. Land Before Honour: Palestinian Women in The Occupied Territories. London: Macmillan, 1990.
- Wing, Adrien K. “Custom, Religion, and Rights: The Future Legal Status of Palestinian Women.” Harvard International Law Journal 35, 1 (Winter 1994).
- Young, Elise G. “A Feminist Politics of Health Care: The Case of Palestinian Women Under Israeli Occupation, 1979-1982.” In Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change, edited by Tamar Mayer. New York: Routledge, 1994.
- Young, Elise G. Keepers of the History: Women and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. New York: Teachers College Press, 1992.
- Zughayar, Ghada. “Palestinian Women: Catalysts for Change.” Palestine-Israel Journal II, 3 (1995): 18-21.
Prepared by Saliba Sarsar (1998).