Girls Of Liberty: The Struggle For Suffrage In Mandatory Palestine (brandeis Series On Gender, Culture, Religion, And Law & Hbi
by Margalit Shilo /
2016 / English / PDF
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The story of Zionist women’s struggle for suffrage within the complex political and religious context of the Yishuv.
“Shilo elucidates the strong historical connections between feminism and Jewish nationalism—and their mutual reinforcement—as Zionist women struggled for suffrage in Mandatory Palestine in the context of the movement to found a Jewish and democratic state. Except for a handful of studies . . . the women’s victory in that struggle has virtually been erased from the political history of the State of Israel. Writing against the grain of the male-centered historical canon, Shilo applies up-to-date feminist scholarly methods to the ‘herstory’ of the suffrage movement. . . . An erudite tour de force.”—Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui, Nashim
