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<p>This study examines Palestinian women’s testimonies of marital infidelity as expressions of trauma, resistance, and social critique. Drawing on over 250 posts from two Facebook groups, we conduct a thematic analysis that foregrounds the lived experience of betrayal across somatic, psychological, digital, and socio-cultural dimensions. Women’s posts are consistent with clinical findings on the psychophysiological impact of betrayal—disorientation, dissociation, and prolonged somatic distress—while also revealing culturally specific manifestations shaped by surveillance, honour ideologies, and patriarchal complicity. Betrayal is experienced not only as interpersonal violation but as epistemic collapse, amplified by digital concealment, familial endorsement of male impunity, and the erasure of female agency. Coping strategies range from silence and covert observation to digital resistance and spiritual reframing, highlighting women’s traverse of constrained agency in contexts of legal asymmetry and collective stigma. This study reframes infidelity as a multidimensional rupture demanding therapeutic, legal, and communal responses that honour women’s experiential knowledge and socio-political realities.</p>

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Betrayal as Epistemic Rupture: Palestinian Women’s Narratives of Infidelity, Trauma, and Resistance

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    2025年12月1日

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  • Bilal Hamamra,
  • Michael Uebel

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This study examines Palestinian women’s testimonies of marital infidelity as expressions of trauma, resistance, and social critique. Drawing on over 250 posts from two Facebook groups, we conduct a thematic analysis that foregrounds the lived experience of betrayal across somatic, psychological, digital, and socio-cultural dimensions. Women’s posts are consistent with clinical findings on the psychophysiological impact of betrayal—disorientation, dissociation, and prolonged somatic distress—while also revealing culturally specific manifestations shaped by surveillance, honour ideologies, and patriarchal complicity. Betrayal is experienced not only as interpersonal violation but as epistemic collapse, amplified by digital concealment, familial endorsement of male impunity, and the erasure of female agency. Coping strategies range from silence and covert observation to digital resistance and spiritual reframing, highlighting women’s traverse of constrained agency in contexts of legal asymmetry and collective stigma. This study reframes infidelity as a multidimensional rupture demanding therapeutic, legal, and communal responses that honour women’s experiential knowledge and socio-political realities.