Women, water and memory
Publication about the life of Palestinian women before and after piped water end of the Ottoman Empire until the Palestinian Uprising. The author accentuates that this book is not only about memories of old Palestinian women fetching and managing household water but also them being women, their strength and beauty, their wedding tales, birth, shared despair when a member of the family goes to Israeli prisons. The biographies of eight women fetching water when they were young were about placing activity at the centre of understanding cultural reproduction.
- Creator
- Naguib, Nefissa