الحركة النسائية خلال الانتفاضة

The early days of the uprising in the occupied territories yielded striking images of Palestinian women marching in the streets, schoolgirls throwing stones at soldiers, older women carrying baskets of stones on their heads to supply younger demonstrators, women arguing and tussling with the authori- ties to win the release of an arrested boy. Given this unaccustomed public profile, some commentators began referring to the intifada not only as a "shaking off" of military rule, but as a social revolution in its own right in which the younger generation rebelled against their elders, street activists re- belled against the authority of the PLO, and women rebelled against their traditional place in a patriarchal society.