Abstract
<jats:p>Bringing together a vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including
colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, oral histories, and interviews,
Buried in the Red Dirt tells a story of life, death, reproduction and missing bodies
and experiences during and since the British colonial period in Palestine. Using transnational
feminist reading practices of existing and new archives, the book moves beyond authorized
frames of collective pain and heroism. Looking at their day-to-day lives, where Palestinians
suffered most from poverty, illness, and high rates of infant and child mortality,
Frances Hasso's book shows how ideologically and practically, racism and eugenics
shaped British colonialism and Zionist settler-colonialism in Palestine in different
ways, especially informing health policies. She examines Palestinian anti-reproductive
desires and practices, before and after 1948, critically engaging with demographic
scholarship that has seen Zionist commitments to Jewish reproduction projected onto
Palestinians. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.</jats:p>
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10.1017/9781009072854
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