Monday, March 15, 2021
3:30-4:45 pm EDT
Sarah Ihmoud
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
College of the Holy Cross
How do Palestinian women and girls understand the relationships between patriarchal violence in their own communities and the violence of settler colonialism? What are the challenges and opportunities for reenvisioning Palestinian feminisms in the post-Oslo era? Drawing on the stories of indigenous women and girls in occupied East Jerusalem, this talk explores relationships between the ongoing gendered politics of settler colonial violence and Palestinian women’s oppositional geographies; their embodied, everyday efforts to claim space, place and belonging in Jerusalem and beyond. In doing so, it considers emergent Palestinian feminisms from a decolonial perspective.
Co-Sponsors: The Center for the Humanities at Tufts; Department of Anthropology; the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora; the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and the Middle Eastern Studies Program.