Contents
Preface
1. Homeland/Home
2. Jew-Hate/Woman-Hate
3. Pogrom/Rape
4. The State/The Family
5. Masculinity/Femininity
6. The Chosen/The Evil
7. Hate Literature/Pornography
8. Religion/Maternity
9. Zionism/Women's Liberation
10. Memory/Denial
11. Palestinians/Prostituted Women
Epilogue: The War on the Body
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Preface
I am an enemy of nationalism and male domination. This means that I repudiate
all nationalism except my own and reject the dominance of all men except those I
love. In this I am like every other woman, a pretender to rebellion because to
break with patriarchy I would need to betray my own: the ones with whom I share
a group identity, in this case Jewish, and a presumed history, in this case
Jewish men. They have not hesitated to betray me through assertions of
superiority intended to hurt my human rights and my human dignity. In this, too,
I am like every other woman. Feminists try hard to fight for women at the same
time maintaining special loyalties to subgroups of men. How could we not?
I have grown sick of those loyalties, which protect bru ... read full excerpt from: Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation ebook
