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Provides an in-depth examination and comparison of women's participation in agricultural production in four Middle-Eastern countries. Each country study provides an overview of the status of women in the national economy and society, and in education and law, before proceeding to analyze the status and roles of women in the rural sector.

Offers a rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the Israeli Negev. Placing the stories of five women at the centre, author Pnina Motzafi-Haller depicts a range of creative strategies used by each woman to make a meaningful life within a reality of multiple exclusions.

Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery offers a rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the Israeli Negev. Placing the stories of five women at the center, author Pnina Motzafi-Haller depicts a range of creative strategies used by each woman to make a meaningful life within a reality of multiple exclusions. These limitations, Motzafi-Haller argues, create a "concrete box, " which, unlike the "gl...

Explores the meaning of writing in the post postmodernist moment when master narratives have been questioned and the very act of representing others has been problematized, and discusses some of the key theoretical debates emerging in the aftermath of what came to be known as the postmodernist crisis.When the author first went to Botswana in the early 1980s to study the impact a major land reform had on rural life in this impoverished African ...

Motzafi-Haller explores the meaning of writing in the "post" post-modernist moment, when master narratives have been questioned and the very act of representing "others" has been problematized.