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Title The war on women in Israel : a story of religious radicalism and the women fighting for freedom / Elana Maryles Sztokman.
Author Sztokman, Elana Maryles, author.
Publication Info. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2014]
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Description xxiii, 351 pages ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-340) and index.
Summary Examines the ways that ultra-Orthodox Jews limit the rights of all women in Israel by insisting on a strict separation of the sexes--even segregated buses--and control marriage, divorce, and conversion, and details attempts at resistance.
Subject Women -- Israel -- Social conditions.
Jewish women -- Israel -- Social conditions.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Israel.
Women's rights -- Israel.
Sex discrimination against women -- Israel.
Women (Jewish law)
Religion and state -- Israel.
Equality -- Israel.
Equality -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
ISBN 1492604593 : $24.99
9781492604594