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Article: Shattering Myths: Slow to emerge, women and gender studies now thrives in Israeli universities
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- December 22, 2000
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Belasco, Daniel
The Jewish Week
12-22-2000
Shattering Myths: Slow to emerge, women and gender studies now thrives in
Israeli universities.
DANIEL BELASCO
STAFF WRITER
In Nita Ben-Dov's class at the University of Haifa, 40 students listen to
the hidden, feminine voice of S.Y. Agnon, one of the giants of Hebrew
literature. And in Hannah Naveh's course at Tel Aviv University, over 200
students read travelogues from Homer to the present from a feminist
perspective.
These are only two of dozens of women and gender studies classes that have
become some of the most popular on Israeli campuses in the past few years.
Only 20 years ago, feminism was seen as an American import alien to a
society that professed ...