The wives and mothers of heroes: Evolving identities of Palestinian refugee women in Lebanon
通过黎巴嫩难民营中巴勒斯坦妇女的证词，研究她们在流亡中如何应对“巴勒斯坦已不存在”的困境，并在男性主导的英雄叙事下构建自身身份。
This paper explores the impact that being 'the wives and the mothers of heroes' has had on Palestinian women's identity in the camps of Lebanon. It asks how these women are creating identities for themselves out of the arid landscape of exile. The key question posed in this paper is one of self-definition. How do women refugees address the dilemma of 'identifying themselves as Palestinian in a world in which there is no longer a country called Palestine?' Through the testimonies of individual refugee women, I examine the process of identity formation for women in terms both of change on the ground and change in the refugees' own feelings, behaviour and coping mechanisms, and also in the context of a national narrative of suffering and heroism which has been defined largely according to masculine values.