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Article: Women's Parties in Israel: Their Unrecognized Significance and Potential
- Article from:
- The Middle East Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Middle East Institute Summer 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Women's parties have played a significant role on the Israeli political scene since the beginning of the 20th century until the present. Moreover, women's parties had far reaching impact on both the status of women and wider society. However, the significance of women's parties has been underrated by academia and the media, and their potential prospects have been continuously denied. Women's antagonistic attitudes towards women's parties are, in particular, conspicuous. The article describes and analyzes this phenomenon.
Women's parties have been an integral part of Israeli politics from the 1920s, in the pre-state period, until present times. Moreover, women's parties have had a ...