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Exile in the Promised Land
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Exile in the Promised Land - Marcia Freedman
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"...Within four years she became a founding member of Israel's women's movement, fulfilling a need based on personal discoveries that "housework and childcare are exploitative when unshared; that anatomy need not be destiny; that anger is a rational response to oppression...I learned that like Black[ people], like Jew[ish people], women needed a liberation movement," In 1973 she was elected, unexpectedly, to the Knesset, Israel's governing body..."
(H.S., p. 234)