Professional Palestinian Women in Israel : Diversity and Racism in the Workplace

Examining the growing numbers of Palestinian women working in Israel as doctors, lawyers, and high-tech engineers, this study documents how they forge successful feminine subjectivities along the fault lines of neoliberal diversity. Through a range of interviews, the book explores how these women navigate careers during political stability and war.

Examining the growing numbers of Palestinian women working in Israel as doctors, lawyers, and high-tech engineers, this study documents their efforts to forge successful feminine subjectivities along the fault lines of neoliberal diversity. Through a wide array of interviews, Amalia Sa'ar and Hawazin Younis explore the experiences of women through periods of relative political stability and during war. The book considers their changing attitudes towards success and prestige and their navigation of tensions and conflicting expectations. Additionally, Sa'ar and Younis examine the paradoxical adaptation of neoliberal diversity within Israel's system of racial exclusion and the devastating effects of war on these already precarious mechanisms of inclusion. Finally, this study introduces the concepts of multiple cultural competence and critical cultural competence, highlighting minority women's unique contributions and shifting the burden of inclusion from minorities to the majority.