An Anatomy of Feminist Resistance: Rebel in the Wilderness

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The book explores the story of two women living in remote town Mitzpe Ramon, in the Negev Desert in south Israel. These women lived in poverty and worked under oppressive conditions for all their lives until one day they began to resist. Standing for the rights of working women and mothers, they led protests and strikes that shook the entire country for weeks. In An Anatomy of Feminist Resistance: Rebel in the Wilderness, Dahan Kalevs innovative perspective examines both the public and private spheres of these womans lives and reveals the existence of a third sphere in which women are able to find their voices. This study deciphers what causes women to accept conditions of oppression, under what circumstances will women begin to resist, and what are the political transformations rebellious women undergo while fighting oppression.

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Henriette Dahan Kalevs new book is, as her previous scholarship, a delightful read: It is challenging, educating, eye-opening, and even moving. Her writing offers an enlightening analysis of the relationships between women, society and the economy, as well as the relationships between questions of scholarship, authorship and methodology. It is a brilliant case in which the book and the cover, the what and the how, interact in new and original ways, and create a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts. -- Zvi Triger, PhD, The Striks School of Law, Rishon LeZion, Israel
Henriette Dahan has written a paradigmatic demonstration of the feminist dictum that the personal is the political, for both the subjects of research and the feminist scholar. She tells the stories of two Israeli women of Middle Eastern background who are textile workers in a marginalized location as they resist the interwoven power relations of gender subordination, ethnic inequality and economic exploitation by global capitalism. By attending to the womens particular transformation of consciousness, Dahan provides uniquely insightful analysis and trenchant critique of the locality of global patriarchy. -- Jon Simons, Leeds Trinity University

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Henriette Dahan Kalev is professor emeritus of political science at the Ben Gurion University