@article{ref1,
title="Border anxiety in Palestine-Israel",
journal="Antipode",
year="2006",
author="Long, J.C.",
volume="38",
number="1",
pages="107-127",
abstract="In this paper, I deal with representations of Palestinian women and their experiences with Israeli national security. In particular I explore how the political philosophy of Agamben and feminist psychoanalytic ideas of &quot;abjection&quot; could assist in understanding the nature and flexibility of the power relationships between Palestinian women and the Israeli state. I pay specific attention to moments when women carry out suicide attacks or when pregnant women in labour are forced to give birth at the checkpoint. I argue that, from a Western perspective, pregnant and exploding women's leaky bodily boundary embodies Israeli fears about the leakiness of the border between Israel and Palestine, fears which necessitated the construction of a so-called &quot;security fence&quot; in order to create a hermetic border. As such, I emphasize women's capacity to produce, heighten and dissolve boundaries, bodily and political, thereby advancing a radically different kind of political geography. © Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2006.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0066-4812",
doi="10.1111/j.0066-4812.2006.00567.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0066-4812.2006.00567.x"
}