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The Struggle for Equality - Urban Women Workers in Prestate Israeli Society (Hardcover)
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The Struggle for Equality - Urban Women Workers in Prestate Israeli Society (Hardcover)
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The object of this study is to clarify why and how it happened that
women remained marginal in the processes of social change that took
place during the development of Israeli society. Bernstein examines
the role played by continuous unemployment, by the predominance of
construction work, and by the dependence on the World Zionist
Organization and the Mandate authorities. She also shows how the
individual and collective achievements of women shaped the means
for future achievements and how their failure impeded further
efforts. The author demonstrates that their failure to change the
status of women did not stem from any sort of biological
imperative, nor from some inevitable trend of social movements
towards conservatism, but rather from the power relations between
the women who aspired to change and those who opposed it. The
aspiration for change was real and ran deep, but its advocates were
few and weak, while its adversaries--and the apathetic-- were
numerous and strong. And, the struggle took place under economic
conditions that would have made significant change difficult even
if the balance of power had been more favorable. Finally, the
author demonstrates how the movement for innovation and change lost
its impetus, and conservative elements won.
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