Lexington Books
Pages: 252
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-2435-3 • Hardback • November 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-2436-0 • eBook • November 2018 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
Henriette Dahan Kalev is professor emeritus of political science at the Ben Gurion University
Henriette Dahan Kalev’s new book is, as her previous scholarship, a delightful read: It is challenging, educating, eye-opening, and even moving. Her writing offers an enlightening analysis of the relationships between women, society and the economy, as well as the relationships between questions of scholarship, authorship and methodology. It is a brilliant case in which the book and the cover, the “what” and the “how,” interact in new and original ways, and create a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts.
— Zvi Triger, PhD, The Striks School of Law, Rishon LeZion, Israel
Henriette Dahan has written a paradigmatic demonstration of the feminist dictum that the ‘personal is the political,’ for both the subjects of research and the feminist scholar. She tells the stories of two Israeli women of Middle Eastern background who are textile workers in a marginalized location as they resist the interwoven power relations of gender subordination, ethnic inequality and economic exploitation by global capitalism. By attending to the women’s particular transformation of consciousness, Dahan provides uniquely insightful analysis and trenchant critique of the locality of global patriarchy.
— Jon Simons, Leeds Trinity University