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Record Nr.

UNINA9910269349503321

Autore

Shilo Margalit

Titolo

Girls of liberty : the struggle for suffrage in mandatory Palestine. / / Margalit Shilo, translated by Haim Watzman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waltham, Massachusetts : , : Brandeis University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-61168-925-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages)

Collana

Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law & HBI Series on Jewish Women

Disciplina

324.6/23095694

Soggetti

Jewish women - Suffrage - Palestine - History - 20th century

Jewish women - Legal status, laws, etc - Palestine - History - 20th century

Jewish women - Political activity - Palestine - History - 20th century

Suffragists - Palestine - History - 20th century

Palestine Politics and government 1917-1948

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Feminism and its Zionist and Hebrew roots -- 2. The women's struggle begins: local organization -- 3. The national campaign commences -- 4. From associations to political party: the union of Hebrew women for equal rights -- 5. One step forward, two steps back -- 6. The union comes of age -- 7. Five years of struggle and a victory -- 8. Victory and defeat.