Selected and Introduced by Jon Rothscild
Al Saqi Books, 1984, Distributed by Zed Press
Chapter-3: Mobility - Palestinian Workers, A Reserve Army of Labour in the Israeli Economy, by Emmanuel Farajun, Tel Aviv, July 1979. Originally published in Hebrew May 1978.
Article by a Lebanese woman describing the position of women in both Muslim and Christian communities as the country slid into civil war.
A look at the changes in Palestinian society since the beginning of zionist expansion in the region and its affect on the position of women.
Legislation dealing with marriage, divorce, and the status of women (inferior in all cases) is still based on, or directly inspired by, Koranic law in all the Arab-Islamic states. What role is played by Islam, what is its influence, and how is it used in the oppression of Arab women.
The myth of the supposed liberation and equality of Israeli women, while perhaps gratifying a deep-seated need for feminists in search of identity, cajoles most Israeli women into a state of spirited resignation – content with a public image that bears little or no resemblance to their actual situation.
The Oriental Jews in Zionism's dialectical contradictions.
Who are the Oriental Jews, how do they perceive themselves, the Ashkenazi Jews, the Arabs and the Palestinians? There are no simple answers...
The civil war in Lebanon has been striking in its despicability. It has seen all the horrors of the worst civil wars while lacking their one advantage: that which enables the victor to blame all the horrors on the vanquished.