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Hannah Safran: Don't Wanna Be Nice Girls: The Struggle for Suffrage and the New Feminism in Israel.(Book review)

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues

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Hannah Safran Don't Wanna Be Nice Girls: The Struggle for Suffrage and the New Feminism in Israel Haifa: Pardes Publications, 2006.

We live in a time of powerful forces that operate to isolate us--to disconnect us from each other, from women who struggled against injustice and oppression in the past and those who are still engaged in the very same struggles. Powerful disputations disconnect us from feminist women who are resisting power structures around us, and from women who took part in feminist endeavors over the years. Our separate struggles for success in careers, intimate relationships and inner growth, and for our own economic survival, often expose us to ...

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