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Women in Israel provides a fresh, gendered analysis of citizenship in Israel.<br/><br/>Working from a framework of Israel as a settler-colonial regime, this important, insightful book presents historical and contemporary comparative approaches to the lives and experiences of Ashkenazi, Mizrahi and Palestinian Arab women citizens.<br/><br/>Nahla Abdo shows that no solution to the problems of the region can be found without changing existing racial and gender boundaries to citizenship.