Redefining Palestinian Women Organizations Activism Under Jewish Democratic State Restrictions

Download or read book Redefining Palestinian Women Organizations’ Activism under Jewish Democratic State Restrictions written by Shadi Bayadsy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palestinian women living in Israel are discriminated against in many aspects of their daily lives. In this book, Shadi Bayadsy examines how this situation motivated Palestinian women to organize and advocate for emancipation and equality through the professional Palestinian women organizations established in Israel. The author demonstrates the different strategies each organization employs to navigate challenging restrictions and to avoid being shut down by state apparatuses or by societal institutions and localities. This book will be of interest to scholars of women and gender studies as well as Middle Eastern studies.