Zionist Women of the 1920s: The Voice of Nation Building
2006; Routledge; Volume: 25; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13531040600810284
ISSN1744-0548
Autores Tópico(s)Islamic Studies and History
ResumoCandidates for admission to the Agricultural College for Young Women at Nahalal expressed the sensibilities of a generation of young Jewish women who were attracted to the Zionist movement in the late 1920s. Zionism offered them the chance to create a novel identity for women as equals of men by devoting their labor to the settlement project. Hopeful applicants embraced an energetic ideal of self-sufficiency that blurred the traditional gender boundaries both of Palestine and of Europe. Like their male colleagues, they spoke in the public and universal voice of ideology and tied their desire for equality to the nation's bandwagon.
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