§ THIS chapter examines the strategies of the Palestinian women’s movement, particularly its equality strategy, in the post-Oslo period.
The equality strategy has guided the movement’s initiatives for gender-aware legal reform, including of y⅛n'α-bascd family law. This strategy has been countered by other strategies, most sharply from Islamist currents, but also from the religious establishment and, to some extent, from within the women’s movement itself.
Debates erupted into the public arena during a year-long ‘model parliament’ organized by women’s groups in 1998, and colour current efforts to influence the shaping of a new unified Palestinian family law. Women’s movement initiatives in the interim period took place in a period marked by a general demobilization of the mass political activity that characterized Palestinian society in the era of Israeli military’ occupation, particularly from the late 1970s onwards when mass-based organizations of women, students and workers developed in the framework of the Palestinian national movement. The eruption of a new Palestinian intifada (uprising) in the autumn of 2000 occurred on radically different terrain, with civil society participation limited and its influence on strategy highly constrained. While the second intifada’s aim of ending the occupation and achieving genuine Palestinian independence are common and deeply-held national goals, the intifada and its aftermath pose a set of challenges for civil society and ‘agents for reform’, such as the Palestinian women’s movement under discussion here, to reformulate agendas to incorporate national and social goals that address wide sectors of society and the real needs, interests and rights of women and men in society.
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