Nada Elia

In Palestine and Feminist Liberation, Nada Elia shows how anti-colonial struggles are or should be an important part of feminist liberation. She points out how western feminists have, too long, treated feminist liberation as tied to individual freedom to succeed and ignored the need to tie it to collective struggles of women under colonialism. They have ignored the realities of Palestinian women or seen it as the result of their religion rather than deliberate Israeli policies and have show more overlooked the crucial role Palestinian women have played in the resistance. In this short book, Elia provides the reader with very well-researched, cogent, and accessible arguments why feminist liberation cannot be achieved until it includes the struggles of and solidarity with colonized women.

Thanks to Netgalley and Literary Press Group of Canada for an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review show less