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Author Shilo, Margalit, author

Title Girls of Liberty Margalit Shilo, translated by Haim Watzman
Published Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages )
Series Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law & HBI Series on Jewish Women
Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents 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
Summary "Presents the story of the struggle for women's right to vote in Mandatory Palestine. Includes portraits of individual leaders and discusses the Zionist roots of feminism and nationalism, the views of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sector, and comparative information on contemporary suffrage movements elsewhere in the world"-- Provided by the publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Suffragists -- Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948
Jewish women -- Political activity -- Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948
Jewish women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948
Jewish women -- Suffrage -- Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948
Jewish women -- Political activity
Politics and government
Suffragists
SUBJECT Palestine -- Politics and government -- 1917-1948. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097181
Subject Middle East -- Palestine
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse.
LC no. 2015031119
ISBN 9781611689280
1611689287