publication-status: Publishedtypes: ArticleThe paper traces Palestinian women’s understandings, practices and framings of
everyday resistance. Women’s resistance acts consist of both materially-based survival
strategies and various coping strategies at the ideational level. Focussing on the latter,
this study investigates women’s practices of travelling to create (a sense of) normal joyful
life for themselves, their families, friends and community with the aim of shedding light
upon the complex and mutually constitutive interplay between women’s agency and the
various social and political power structures. It is argued that Palestinian women,
although framing their acts of crossing Israeli-imposed physical restriction as acts of
resistance against the occupation, are in fact also seizing an opportunity to covertly
challenge and trespass internal patriarchal forms of control.Exeter Universit
