Women Unsilenced

Hope, Freedom, and Music in Palestine

Sommer Helweh Forrester (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-06927-0 (ISBN)

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Women Unsilenced: Hope, Freedom, and Music in Palestine explores how Palestinian women use music to express, protest, and celebrate their identities. Divided into two parts, the book is told through with contrasting narrative styles. In Part One, the author uses evocative autoethnography to illuminate their experiences of travelling through Palestine and meeting five women musicians, spanning three generations. In Part Two, the author uses narrative case studies to center the women’s voices. They share harrowing accounts of daily life that chronicle the untold stories of women living under military occupation and patriarchal oppression. These living stories reveal the unwavering determination of three generations of women to regain their cultural identity, educate their youth and take their place among the peace-loving nations of the world. Their stories challenge dominant assumptions about Palestinians and women in the Middle East and disrupt assumptions that are rooted in settler-colonialist and imperialist narratives. The stories of these women are beacons of hope, celebrating the universal value of self-determination.

Offering an intimate look at the lives and identities of Palestinian women as celebrated through music, this is a useful resource for students and scholars across Music Education, Women and Gender Studies, and Political Science. It will also be of interest to those completing their own narrative research and the general reader wanting to learn more about Palestinian womens’ everyday lives.

Sommer Helweh Forrester is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Toronto, Canada.

PART ONE – The Place and the People

Part One Introduction

Chapter 1: Summer 1 - 2017

Farah
Nibal

Chapter 2: Summer 2 - 2018

Amal
Rima

Chapter 3: Summer 3 - 2019

Reunion
Huda

PART TWO – Daily Life

Part Two Introduction

Chapter 4 - Education

Chapter 5: “Min Wen?” (Where are you from?) + Who am I?

Chapter 6: Activism

Chapter 7: Dreams and Reality

Epilogue: Reunion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.4.2026
Zusatzinfo	30 Halftones, black and white; 30 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-041-06927-8 / 1041069278
ISBN-13	978-1-041-06927-0 / 9781041069270
Zustand	Neuware