Tuesday 5 August 2014

Can Palestinian Men be Victims? Gendering Israel's War on Gaza

"Today, we should be aware of how the trope of “womenandchildren” is circulating in relation to Gaza and to Palestine more broadly. This trope accomplishes many discursive feats, two of which are most prominent: The massifying of women and children into an undistinguishable group brought together by the “sameness” of gender and sex, and the reproduction of the male Palestinian body (and the male Arab body more generally) as always already dangerous."

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/18644/can-palestinian-men-be-victims-gendering-israels-w

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