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Acknowledgments I am most grateful to all the women peace activists in Israel and in the Occupied Territories who made this book possible. I want to thank the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manchester and Marilyn Strathern, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, and the Susan B. Anthony Center at the University of Rochester for inviting me to present earlier versions of the chapters. For their support and encouragement I thank the Rochester Jewish Women Feminist Study Group, the Song of Songs group, and the Saturday group. For their friendship, collegiality, and comments I thank Laura Perez and Karen Fields. The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation gave me a generous grant to write this book. Portions of chapter 1 appeared in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 16 (1992). ...

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