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Exile in the Promised Land: A Memoir
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Luke (korrick) | 2004 comments Exile in the Promised Land, Marcia Freedman, Israel (United States), 1990, MEMOIR

"...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)


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