July 19, 2002

'Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel'

By NINA C. AYOUB

Palestinian Arabs number some 20 percent of Israeli citizens, writes Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh, an anthropologist at American University. But who's counting?

Israel is, notes the scholar in Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel (University of California Press). She details the demographic fears that have shaped a wide range of laws, policies, and record keeping by the Jewish state, often to the disadvantage of the minority Arab population. But in response to Israel's

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