Author: Henriette Dahan Kalev File Type: pdf 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. **Review 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) About the Author Henriette Dahan Kalev is professor emeritus of political science at the Ben Gurion University

Author: Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi File Type: pdf This anthology contributes to a scholarly understanding of the aesthetics and economics of female artistic labour in the Victorian period. It maps out the evolution of the Woman Question in a number of areas, including the status and suitability of artistic professions for women, their engagement with new forms of work and their changing relationship to the public sphere. The wealth of material gathered here - from autobiographies, conduct manuals, diaries, periodical articles, prefaces and travelogues - traces the extensive debate on womens art, feminism and economics from the 1830s to the 1890s.Combining for the first time nineteenth-century criticism on literature and the visual arts, performance and craftsmanship, the selected material reveals the different ideological positions surrounding the transition of women from idleness to serious occupation. The distinctive primary sources explore the impact of artistic labour upon perceptions of feminine sensibility and aesthetics, the conflicting views of women towards the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they encompassed vocations, trades and professions, and the complex relationship between paid labour and female fame and notoriety.**