Postgraduate Module Descriptor


ARAM230: Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Palestine/Israel

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Abdo, N., Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System, 2014.

Abdo, N. and Yuval-Davis, N., Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class, 1995.

Abdo, N. and Masalha, N. (eds.), An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba, 2018.

Arvin, M., Tuck, E. and Morrill, A., ‘Decolonising Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy’, Feminist Formations, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 8-34, 2013.

Fanon, F., ‘Concerning Violence’ in The Wretched of the Earth, 1968.

Icaza, R. and de Jong, S. (eds.) Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning, 2019.

Lentin, R., Thinking Palestine, 2008.

Morgensen, S., ‘Theorising Gender, Sexuality and Settler Colonialism: An Introduction’, Settler Colonial Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 2-22, 2012.

Natanel, K., Sustaining Conflict: Apathy and Domination in Israel/Palestine, 2016.

Puar, J., Terrorist Assemblages: homonationalism in queer times, 2007.

Said, E., ‘Permission to Narrate’, Settler Colonial Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 27-48, 1984.

Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N., Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian Case Study, 2009.

Sharoni, S., Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women’s Resistance, 1995.

Wolfe, P., ‘Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native’, Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 387-409, 2006.