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Article: The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 2004
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The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948. By Ellen Fleischmann. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 335. $29.95.)
This study, documenting the development of a Palestinian women's movement in the period of the British mandate, 1920-48, is intended to correct an absence in the historical literature. In the author's words, she found "a surprising silence that shrouds the subject of Palestinian women in almost all historical writings on Palestine" (11). Although Ellen Fleischman's own work and the material she draws upon suggest that this silence is far from absolute, this is the first study based on ...