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By Mary Rizzo • Sep 14th, 2008 at 21:39 • Category: Falastin, PhotosGiven the gendered socio-economic structure, house demolitions inordinately impacts women, for the home is where women most acutely invest their time, build their safety nets, advance their talents and hobbies, carry on their work of looking after the family, and carrying on with their life responsibilities. Once the home is destroyed, women are left with the metaphoric and symbolic burdens—which are no less real than the material loss of a safe place to live—of not having a sense of safety and place of belonging, a source of memories.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Ph.D Resisting Women
Mary Rizzo is an art restorer, translator and writer living in Italy. Editor and co-founder of Palestine Think Tank, co-founder of Tlaxcala translations collective. Her personal blog is Peacepalestine.
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