The myth of gender equality and the limits of women's political dissent in Israel

Middle East Report

Volumn 28, Issue 207, 1998, Pages 24-28

  Sharoni, Simona ^a  

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Indexed keywords

GENDER ROLE; JEWISH PEOPLE; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; WOMEN'S STATUS;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0031672004     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3013163     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. The bimonthly Tikkun devoted two issues (March/April and May/June 1998) to the topic of "Israel at Fifty." The Nation designated its May 4, 1998 issue to Israel's 50th anniversary celebrations.
2. Because it is designed to challenge the myth of gender equality in Israel, this article deals exclusively with the political mobilization of Jewish women who are portrayed as liberated and Westernized. It is important to note, however, that Palestinian women who hold Israeli citizenship have been involved in the women's peace movement.
3. Marcia Freedman, Exile in the Promised Land: A Memoir (New York: Firebrand Books, 1990), p. 108.
4. Yael Yishai, Between the Flag and the Banner: Women in Israeli Politics (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997), p. 232.
5. Quoted in Simona Sharoni, Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women's Resistance (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995), p. 105.
6. For more on these groups see Simona Sharoni, Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, op. cit., pp. 106-109;
7. and "Motherhood and the Politics of Women's Resistance: Israeli Women Organizing for Peace" in The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right, eds. Jetter et al. (Hanover & London: New England University Press, 1997), pp. 144-160.
8. The comparison to the four biblical mothers, and especially to Sarah, has been a common theme in the movement's political campaign.