Title: Women, water and memory
First published: 2009
Description: This book tells a different story about water. Against the backdrop of the end of the Ottoman Empire to the Palestinian uprisings, old Palestinian women recount life before and after piped water. While talking about fetching and managing household water, women also talked about being women. Women, Water and Memory speaks of many different lives. We hear stories about women's own strength and beauty, and about the woman who married a man whose ugly face made her sick. While one woman married the man she cared for, another was relieved that her husband died when she was too old to be forced to remarry. We learn about the joy they feel each time they dance at a wedding, the sheer satisfaction of lighting a cigarette, the loyalty and shared despair towards families with members in prison, and about the tears of sorrow at each death and the delight at each birth. -- Back cover.
Subjects: Palestinian Arab Women, Social conditions, Social life and custom, Women and religion, Women storytellers, Women, Palestinian Arab, Women, asia, Asia, social life and customs, Storytelling, Asia, social conditions, Social life and customs
Places: Palestine
LC classification: HQ1728.5 .N33 2009