Palestinian women living in Israel are discriminated against in many aspects of their daily lives. In this book, Shadi Bayadsy examines how this situation motivated Palestinian women to organize and advocate for emancipation and equality through the professional Palestinian women organizations established in Israel. The author demonstrates the different strategies each organization employs to navigate challenging restrictions and to avoid being shut down by state apparatuses or by societal institutions and localities. This book will be of interest to scholars of women and gender studies as well as Middle Eastern studies.

Shadi Bayadsy teaches at Old Dominion University.

Part One: Introduction and Methodology

Introduction......

Part Two: The Palestinian Case

Chapter One: The Shifts in Palestinian Masculinity.......................

Chapter Two: The Creation of the PINGOs........

Part Three: The Field Work Experience

Chapter Three: The Localization of International Feminist Guidelines ................

Chapter Four: Islamist Womens Activism ...................

Chapter Five: Direct vs. Indirect Challenge of Tribal and Patriarchal Society...............

Chapter Six: Foreign Donors and Palestinian Women Organizations....

Conclusion.......

References ...........

Index....

About the Author.