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" The social construction of militancy in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Masculinity, femininity and the nation "
Mark Sanagan

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	54393
Doc. No	:	TL24347
Call number	:	‭MR32555‬
Main Entry	:	Mark Sanagan
Title & Author	:	The social construction of militancy in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Masculinity, femininity and the nation\ Mark Sanagan
College	:	McGill University (Canada)
Date	:	2007
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2007
Page No	:	89
Abstract	:	This thesis examines nationalism and colonialism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and asks the questions: What is the relationship between these ideologies and "national narratives" constructed of collective historical memory? How do these ideologies produce recognizable, sexualized, national bodies? What are the defining characteristics of these national bodies and how do they perform roles from the national narratives? These questions are addressed through a discussion of the role of masculinity in modern Zionism and the state of Israel, in particular how it relates to the land of Palestine and the Palestinian "other". This thesis also addresses anti-colonial resistance movements in Palestine and argues that performative nationalism produces a fetishized commodity that can me labeled "militancy". This militancy is found institutionalized in the popular culture of everything from poetry to political posters. Finally, Palestinian female suicide bombers, like women nationalists before them, do little to challenge how specific nationalist acts of resistance are defined by patriarchal nationalists and sexualized within a "gendered space of militancy".
Subject	:	Social sciences; Middle Eastern history; 0333:Middle Eastern history
Added Entry	:	McGill University (Canada)