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The book explores the story of two women living in remote town Mitzpe Ramon, in the Negev Desert in south Israel. These women lived in poverty and worked under oppressive conditions for all their lives until one day they began to resist. Standing for the rights of working women and mothers, they led protests and strikes that shook the entire country for weeks. In An Anatomy of Feminist Resistance: Rebel in the Wilderness, Dahan Kalev’s innovative perspective examines both the public and private spheres of these woman’s lives and reveals the existence of a third sphere in which women are able to find their voices. This study deciphers what causes women to accept conditions of oppression, under what circumstances will women begin to resist, and what are the political transformations rebellious women undergo while fighting oppression.

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9781498524353

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Henriette Dahan Kalev's new book is, as her previous scholarship, a delightful read: It is challenging, educating, eye-opening, and even moving. Her writing offers an enlightening analysis of the relationships between women, society and the economy, as well as the relationships between questions of scholarship, authorship and methodology. It is a brilliant case in which the book and the cover, the what and the how, interact in new and original ways, and create a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts. -- Zvi Triger, PhD, The Striks School of Law, Rishon LeZion, Israel

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Henriette Dahan Kalev is professor emeritus of political science at the Ben Gurion University

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