Title The nation and its "new" women : the Palestinian women's movement, 1920-1948 / Ellen L. Fleischmann.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
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Description	xv, 335 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-327) and index.
Contents	Introduction: Inscription into the national narrative -- Palestinian women and the rule of the British mandate -- The "woman question" in Palestine and the debate in the Arabic press -- The roots of movement : charity and the nation -- Woman is all the nation : the Palestinian women's movement, 1929-1939 -- The politics of the women's movement : the question of feminism, nationalism, and the "new" woman -- Pan-Arabism and the 1940s.
Subject	Women, Palestinian Arab -- Political activity -- History -- 1917-1948.
	Women, Palestinian Arab -- Political activity.
	History.
Chronological Term	1917-1948
Subject	Women, Palestinian Arab.
	Feminism -- Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948.
	Feminism.
	Women -- Political activity -- Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948.
	Women -- Political activity.
	Panarabism -- History.
	Panarabism.
	Feminism.
	Women's movement.
	Women.
	Womyn.
ISBN	0520237900 paperback alkaline paper
	0520237897 alkaline paper