Mada's Research Papers

Summary:
The Gender Studies Project at Mada al-Carmel has recently published a book called “Palestinian Women in Israel: Annotated Bibliography 1948-2006”. The book is the second in a series of publications by the GSP. Prepared and edited by Himmat Zoabi and Nora Biatra-Rayan, the book is a collection of all of the academic articles and books that have been written in Arabic, Hebrew and English on Palestinian women citizens of the State of Israel from 1948 to 2006.

This publication aims to provide interested readers and researchers with the most comprehensive and detailed source of information possible on the various forms of knowledge that have been produced, within different academic frameworks, on issues related to Palestinian women. The literature survey is intended to provide assistance with questions on the nature of the knowledge that has been produced, as well as the identities of its producers. Thus, the research has been presented in such a way as to preserve the research approaches used by the researchers who wrote it. This was done out of a desire to convey the most accurate possible representation of the research product that has been generated by the Israeli and Western academies on the one hand, and of the new academic writings put forth by Palestinian academics and civil society institutions specializing in this field on the other hand. The book further aims to provide scope for our researchers to develop and employ this knowledge, and to facilitate the process of selecting subject areas and cognitive approaches in the study of our Palestinian society, through Palestinian eyes, in the future.

In spite of the difficulties entailed in dividing the bibliography in this book into chapters according to defined, separate subject areas, owing to the structure, multitude and interlocking nature of the constituents of the cultural phenomena dealt with by the literature described, it has nevertheless been presented in chapter form. This is solely for the convenience of the readers, and an indication has been given in the introduction to the book that the division employed must be dealt with from this point of departure. The bibliography has been divided into the following main chapters: the economy and the labor market; education; demography, marriage and family planning; violence against women; women and the law; women and politics; sexual identity, social reality and nationalism. The chapters are preceded by an introduction and opening chapter on the methodology used in surveying the literature contained in the book, and followed by a list of the bibliographical literature that was surveyed.

Available in Arabic