Scholarship, identity, and power: Mizrahi women in Israel

Signs

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 696-734

  Motzafi Haller, Pnina ^a  

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ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; MEDICAL EDUCATION; RESEARCH; SOCIAL CLASS;

ETHNIC GROUPS; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; FEMINISM; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL CLASS; WOMEN;

EID: 1542451341     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/495626     Document Type: Article

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