LEADER 03612oam 2200529 450 001 9910136455403321 005 20200618112959.0 010 $a9781611689280 (ebook) 010 $a9781611689259 (ebook) 010 $z9781611688856 (paperback) 010 $z9781611688863 (paperback) 035 $a(CKB)3710000000618715 035 $a(OCoLC)945217324 035 $a(ScCtBLL)e2de1596-d12e-4103-b411-c0104355c5c7 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000618715 100 $a20170206d2016uuuu fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGirls of liberty $ethe struggle for suffrage in Mandatory Palestine /$fMargalit Shilo, translated by Haim Watzman 210 1$aWaltham, Massachusetts :$cBrandeis University Press,$d2016 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aBrandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law / HBI Series on Jewish Women 300 $aMade Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. 311 08$aPrint version: 9781611688856 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 3 $aFollowing the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women would be part of it. A group of feminist Zionist women from all over the country created a political party that participated in the elections, even before women's suffrage was enacted. This unique phenomenon in Mandatory Palestine resulted in the declaration of women's equal rights in all aspects of life by the newly founded Assembly of Representatives. Margalit Shilo examines the story of these activists to elaborate on a wide range of issues, including the Zionist roots of feminism and nationalism; the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sector's negation of women's equality; how traditional Jewish concepts of women fashioned rabbinical attitudes on the question of women's suffrage; and how the fight for women's suffrage spread throughout the country. Using current gender theories, Shilo compares the Zionist suffrage struggle to contemporaneous struggles across the globe, and connects this nearly forgotten episode, absent from Israeli historiography, with the present situation of Israeli women. This rich analysis of women's right to vote within this specific setting will appeal to scholars and students of Israel studies, and to feminist and social historians interested in how contexts change the ways in which activism is perceived and occurs. 410 0$aBrandeis series on gender, culture, religion & law. 606 $aJewish women$xSuffrage$zPalestine$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJewish women$xLegal status, laws, etc$zPalestine$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJewish women$xPolitical activity$zPalestine$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSuffragists$zPalestine$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aPalestine$xPolitics and government$y1917-1948 608 $bElectronic books. 615 0$aJewish women$xSuffrage$xHistory 615 0$aJewish women$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory 615 0$aJewish women$xPolitical activity$xHistory 615 0$aSuffragists$xHistory 676 $a324.623095694 700 $aShilo$b Margalit$0944222 702 $aWatzman$b Haim 801 2$bUkMaJRU 912 $a9910136455403321 996 $aGirls of liberty$92131541 997 $aUNINA