Israeli Women: The Reality Behind the MythsDrawing on hundreds of interviews with her countrywomen, an Israeli journalist and sociologist illuminates the origins of myths concerning the liberation of Israeli women and analyzes the extent to which they dominate the social structure of a complex, contradictory democracy. |
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