Though an equal rights clause is written into the Israeli
constitution, women are underrepresented in the political arena.
This is especially true in the case of Palestinian women - only one
Palestinian woman has been a member of the Knesset in the entire
fifty-plus-year history of Israel. Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud examines
the various factors that have created this culture of political
oppression. She relies on both feminist theory and theories of
colonial domination as well as conclusions drawn from personal
interviews with female activists. Utilizing Arabic, English, and
Hebrew sources, she also makes careful distinctions between the
lives and experiences of Christian, Muslim, Bedouin, and Druze
women. Daoud's focus remains squarely on the experiences of
Palestinian women, however, and she demonstrates that the problem
is not only due to the minority status of Palestinians. She reveals
how they are further hampered by Arab cultural attitudes toward
women and the overall political culture in Israel, which continues
to privilege men over women even as it pays lip service to
equality.
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