Falastiniyyat
A Century of Palestinian Feminisms
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verso Books
Publishing:6th Oct '26
£18.99
This title is due to be published on 6th October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
FROM EARLY PIONEERS TO MODERN-DAY REVOLUTIONARIES: THE RESILIENCE AND CENTRALITY OF FEMINISTS IN THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT
Women have been central to every phase of Palestinian resistance. Here Nada Elia recovers the long-suppressed story of Palestinian women's organizing from 1929 to the present. Far from being a Western import, local feminism consistently linked personal empowerment with collective liberation, anticolonial struggle with social transformation. In the time of the Mandate, Matiel Mogannam confronted British imperialism through the Arab Women's Congress. In the following decades, Camille Odeh built Arab American solidarity networks. Their legacy continues today in the work of contemporary activists fighting femicide and pinkwashing throughout the world.
Falastiniyyat rescues Palestinian feminism from obscurity. Furthermore, Elia argues that these activists were pioneers of a uniquely intersectional, antiimperial feminist politics.
Provides a valuable addition to knowledge about Palestinian women's movements in the national struggle for Palestinian liberation. Informative and well researched. -- Ghada Karmi, author of In Search of Fatima
A paradigm-shifting book. Essential reading for classrooms, activists, and anyone interested in Palestinian liberation, Palestinian feminism, or global and decolonial feminist movements. -- Dr. Nadine Naber, Co-Author of Radical Mothering
Elia weaves narrative, urgency, and intimacy spanning a century and continents to provide a remarkable history of Palestinian feminism. Elia's own life in struggle makes this text vibrate, its characters jumping from the pages, beseeching us to join them in their noble and unyielding commitment to our collective liberation. To free the land and everyone on it. -- Noura Erakat, Professor and Author of Justice for Some
Never more needed than now, Falastiniyyat is a beautifully written, essential text for everyone in search of peace and justice in our time -- Lynne Segal, author of Lean on Me
Readers looking for a women-centric introduction to the history of Palestinian resistance will value this. * Publishers Weekly *
ISBN: 9781804297056
Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 16mm
Weight: 291g
256 pages
Paperback original