Women & Conflict in the Middle East: Palestinian Refugees and the Response to Violence

by Maria Holt

Women in conflict zones face a wide range of violence from a variety of sources: from physical and psychological trauma to political, economic and social disadvantage. Maria Holt uses her research gathered in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon and in the West Bank to look at the forms and effects of violence suffered by women in the context of the wider conflict around them. After the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, Palestinian refugees...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780761015
• ISBN13: 9781780761015
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"