Displaced at Home

Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh has taught anthropology and gender studies at New York University and American University. She is the author of Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel and Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military. Isis Nusair is Assistant Professor of International Studies and Women's Studies at Denison University.

• List of IllustrationsForewordLila Abu-LughodAcknowledgmentsIntroductionRhoda Ann Kanaaneh and Isis NusairPart I. State and Ethnicity 1. Political Mobilization of Palestinians in Israel: The al-Ard MovementLeena Dallasheh2. A Good Arab in a Bad House? Unrecognized Villagers in the Israeli MilitaryRhoda Ann Kanaaneh3. Louder Than the Blue ID: Palestinian Hip-Hop in IsraelAmal EqeiqPart II. Memory and Oral History 4. Gendered Politics of Location of Three Generations of Palestinian Women in IsraelIsis Nusair5. Counter-Memory: Palestinian Women Naming Historical EventsFatma Kassem 6. Being a BorderHonaida Ghanim Part III. Gendering Bodies and Space 7. The Roles of Palestinian Peasant Women: The Case of al-Birweh Village, 1930–1960Lena Meari8. Politics of Loyalty: Women’s Voting Patterns in Municipal ElectionsTaghreed Yahia-Younis 9. The Sexual Politics of Palestinian Women in IsraelManal Shalabi Part IV. Migrations 10. Palestinian Predicaments: Jewish Immigration and Refugee RepatriationAreej Sabbagh-Khoury 11. Women’s Masked Migration: Palestinian Women Explain Their Move upon MarriageLilian Abou-Tabickh 12. Emigration Patterns among Palestinian Women in IsraelIbtisam Ibrahim Works CitedAbout the ContributorsIndex

"…the volume is distinctive in bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the dramatic and the mundane … In their combination of empirical innovation and theoretical sophistication, these chapters … and the volume as a whole, make an important contribution to the academic scholarship of and about the Palestinians" — Review of Middle East Studies"By intertwining the themes of ethnicity and gender, Displaced at Home breaks new ground, presenting a counter narrative to studies that posit the Palestinian citizens of Israel only as manipulated and victimised, as well as to Palestinian nationalist histories which present society as monolithic … The fact that all twelve contributors … are Palestinian women, citizens of Israel, gives their research an immediacy and authenticity that make the book engrossing as well as highly informative." — Jordan Times"Informative, insightful, and thought-provoking." — Mary N. Layoun, author of Wedded to the Land? Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis"This groundbreaking book helps to fill a huge gap in research on Palestinians in Israel." — Amal Amireh, author of The Factory Girl and the Seamstress: Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction