{"product_id":"living-palestine-lisa-taraki-9780815631347","title":"Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility Under Occupation","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking volume takes an in-depth look at how individuals, families, and entire households \"cope,\" negotiate their lives, and achieve personal and collective goals in Occupied Palestine. Contributors raise critical questions about tradition vs. modernity and the sociocultural consequences of emigration.\u003ci\u003e Living Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e establishes that household dynamics (i.e., kin-based marriage, fertility decisions, children's education, and living arrangements) cannot be fully grasped unless linked to the traumas of the past and worries of the present. Likewise, family strategies for survival and social mobility under occupation are swept up in the tide of history that engulfs the world in which Palestinians live and struggle. \u003ci\u003eLiving Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e is drawn from an expansive research project of the Institute for Women's Studies at Birzeit University which sought to examine the Palestinian household from multiple perspectives through a survey of two thousand households\u003cbr\u003ein nineteen communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Taraki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815631340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815631347\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.34w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2007 pg. 151","brand":"Lisa Taraki","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926472392959,"sku":"9780815631347","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0bec2268-de7f-4c3f-ab6f-3d7deca956d3.jpg?v=1681083262","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-palestine-lisa-taraki-9780815631347","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}