Faculty of Art and Social Sciences
2015 Marston LaFrance Public Lecture

Captive Revolution: Women, Resistance Culture and Anti-Colonial Struggle
Dr. Nahla Abdo, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Monday, March 23, 2015, 2:30 pm
College of Humanities Auditorium – 303 Paterson Hall

All invited
Pleas RSVP to sarah.quirt@carleton.ca

Captive Revolution: Women, Resistance Culture and Anti-Colonial Struggle
In Captive Revolution Nahla Abdo seeks to break the silence on Palestinian women political detainees, providing a vital contribution to research on women, feminism, revolution and anti-colonial resistance. Based on the testimonies of the women themselves, Abdo draws on a wealth of oral history and primary research in order to analyse Palestinian women’s anti-colonial struggle, their agency and their treatment as political detainees.

Making crucial comparisons with the experiences of women political detainees in other conflicts, and emphasizing the vital role of resistance literature and their impact on women’s struggle, captive revolution is a rich and revealing addition to our knowledge of this little studied phenomenon.