Honor Thy Sister
Selfhood, Gender, and Agency in Palestinian Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2998529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diane Baxter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 737-775 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/anq.2007.0037 |
| OpenAlex | W2091495036 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 57 |
In this article, I examine the ideology of honor among West Bank Palestinians most particularly as it relates to sexuality and gender relations within families. I contend that the iconic Arab and Palestinian subject of the ideal, gendered, connected self-a central concept that undergirds most representations of honor-elides the significance of the individual and obscures the rights and strengths of women and the obligations, vulnerabilities, and anxieties of men. Beyond a critique of representations of honor, subjectivities, and patriarchy, I suggest that ideological-culturally-based explanatory models of behavior favor coherency over ambivalence and untidiness. In terms of honor and the subjectivities that inform it, such explanations have led to an over-reliance on resistance as a method of analyzing "anomalies." I argue that for Palestinian women and men, subjectivity and agency are achieved within and are a reflection of structural, ideological, and experiential configurations, rather than as resistances to them
Agency (philosophy) · Ambivalence · Denial · Destiny (ISS module) · Epistemology · Honor · Ideology · Patriarchy · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Resistance (ecology) · Shame · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Subjectivity · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Turkey's Politics and Society
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Maternal Monitoring, Adolescent Disclosure, and Adolescent Adjustment Among Palestinian Refugee Youth in J ordan
Social Media and Social Order
Palestinian students’ attitudes toward honor killing crimes
Muslim women’s perspectives on honor
We have a place to play, but someone else controls it’
Pathways of Arab/ Palestinian Women in Israel to Crime and Imprisonment
How and Why Haifa Has Become the “Palestinian Cultural Capital” in Israel
Introduction-Engaging Islam
Domestic Violence and Humanitarian Crises
The role of gender and living context in shaping Palestinian children’s agency and well-being
The Coloniality of Contemporary Human Rights Discourses on ‘Honour’ in and Around the United Nations
Patriarchy, political enmity, and domestic violence
A Presentist, Palestinian, Pedagogical Reading of Language and Gender Politics in Middleton’s Women Beware Women
Porous masculinities
The dialectics of honour and shame in Middleton’s The Changeling and contemporary Palestine
Constructing Impossibility
Relational Sovereignty
Agency of silence
Re-theorising namûs beyond 'honour
"Seductions of the "Honor Crime
The misogynist representation of women in Palestinian oral tradition
Armed with a Camera
Theory of fertility decline
Islam, Gender, and Social Change
The West Bank data project
Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily
Women, Gender and Language in Morocco
Honor and shame and the unity of the Mediterranean
Honour and Shame
Women and Gender in Islam
Palestinian Society in Gaza, West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem
Women and Power in the Middle East
Questions Of Modernity
Mediterranean Family Structures
Unveiling Muslim Women
Patriarchy and development in the Arab world
Gender and Politics under the Palestinian Authority
Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents
Price of Honor
Images and Self-Images
Reproductive Choice in Islam
Women, honour, and the state
Gendering the Middle East
The True Clash of Civilizations
Family Honor and the Forces of Change in Arab Society
Modernity and Gender in Arab Accounts of the 1948 and 1967 Defeats
Islam and Modernity in Turkey
Gender and Power
Avenues of Participation
On aggression, human rights, and hegemonic discourse
Honor and Shame
The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism
The Virgin and the State
La Terra in Piazza
Palestinian women, violence, and the peace process
Connectivity and Patriarchy among Urban Working-Class Arab Families in Lebanon
Degendering the Honor/Care Conflation
Lifestyle Differences in Traditionalism and Modernity and Reasons for Divorce Among Muslim Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Feminine Strength
Zones Of Theory In The Anthropology Of The Arab World
Female Heads of Patriarchal Households The Baggara
A Community of Secrets
People of the Mediterranean
Shame and Honour
Looking In/Acting Out
Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent
Brother/Sister Relationships
The Romance of Resistance
Honor and the sentiments of loss in a Bedouin society
Veiled Sentiments
Bargaining With Patriarchy
Palestinian Women and Patriarchal Relations
Hegemonic Relations and Gender Resistance
Reexamining Femicide
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,28 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |