Redefining Palestinian Women Organizations’ Activism under Jewish Democratic State Restrictions

This book provides an overview of Palestinian women organizations and their advocacy for emancipation and equality in Israel, with a particular focus on the different strategies that allow them to navigate challenging restrictions without being shut down by state apparatuses or by societal institutions and localities.

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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.