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Article: Gender and Nation in No Room of Their Own: Israeli Women's Fiction.(Review) (book review)
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- July 1, 2000
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Gender and Nation in No Room of Their Own: Israeli Women's Fiction, by Yael S. Feldman,. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 337pp., hardcover and paperback.
The cover of Yael Feldman's new book is an exceptionally appropriate and complex introduction to this complex study. It features an emboldened portion of the title No Room of Their Own, an obvious variation on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One Own. This reference to Virginia Woolf is accompanied by another visual feature, Virginia Woolfs famous photograph surrounded by shared circles and semicircles. This frontpiece presents the collage "The Circle by Virginia," by Deganit Berest, an Israeli woman ...