Women in Israel : race, gender and citizenship / Nahla Abdo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abdo-Zubi, Nahla, 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Israel--Social conditions.

Women.

Citizenship--Israel.

Citizenship.

Women, Palestinian Arab--Israel.

Women, Palestinian Arab.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Women in Israel provides a fresh, gendered analysis of citizenship in Israel. Working from a framework of Israel as a settler-colonial regime, this ... book presents historical and contemporary comparative approaches to the lives and experiences of Ashkenazi, Mizrahi and Palestinian Arab women citizens"--Publisher.

Contents:

Intro

About the Author

Preface

Introduction

1 | Women, State and Citizenship: The Israeli Context

Feminist Writings on Women in Israel

Existing Debates on Citizenship in Israel

Gendered Citizenship and the Settler-Colonial Racist Regime

Methodological Notes

2 | Women in Palestine: The Relevance of History

Women and the Family in Palestine's Predominantly Agrarian Social Structure

Women and Labour in Agrarian Palestine

Ashkenazi Women and Benevolent Colonialism

Mizrahi Women in a Historical Perspective

Mizrahiyout: Between Cultural Erasure and Resistance

3 | Women and Economic Citizenship

Same but Different: Palestinian, Mizrahi and Ashkenazi Women

General Economic Features of Palestinian Citizens in Israel

Table 3.1 Female occupation by ethnic group

Table 3.2 Frequency distributions for dependent and independent variables, by ethnicity

Women, Poverty and the Family

Excluded Citizenship

4 | Women's Citizenship, Education and Human Capital

Women, Education and Racism

Elementary Education for Palestinian Female Citizens

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786613238634

9781350224063

1350224065

9781780328911

1780328915

9781283238632

1283238632

9781848139565

184813956X

OCLC:

748242106