Reviews:
-Janet Powers....[o]ffers an American academic's account of living and engaging in dialogue with Palestinian and Israeli women who have been pushing for dialogue and peacemaking across the Israeli-Palestinian divide....The result of her time spent in the Middle East is a collection of stories and essays describing how inividual women and NGOs struggle to offer peaceful responses to conflict, violence, and hatred....The book also discusses numerous other gendered and nongendered peace and justice organizations among Palestinians and Israelis.
—Journal of Palestine Studies
-[A] collection of stories and essays about the work that Israeli and Palestinian women are doing, in spite of societal restraints, to engage in bi-national dialogue. The first section introduces four organizations that work to bridge the divide between Israelis and Palestinians. The second section depicts the daily lives of Israeli and Palestinian women. The third section focuses on some of the peacebuilding organizations formed by women. The book concludes with a compelling argument in favor of including women at the peace table.
—Middle East Journal
-Powers has gathered the stories of ordinary women on both sides of the Separation Wall and the even deeper political divide between Israelis and Palestinians. Working at the grass roots and primarily amongst other women by societal mandate as well as by preference, the women are engaging in peacemaking while also carving out a political space for themselves as Jews, Muslims and Christians. This is also a personal account of how an American woman perceived women whose experiences were so different, yet in some ways the same, as her own. Powers closes by advocating enforcement of UN Resolution 1325, which requires the presence of women at the highest levels of peace negotiations.
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