Mizrahi Feminism sought to deal with issues relevant to Mizrahi women: poverty, education, cultural exclusion, social tagging, reproductive rights, sexuality, relations between Ashkenazi, Arab and Mizrahi women in the feminist struggle and gender relations. Theoretically the Mizrahi feminist discourse draws from several intellectual sources: feminist theory, class theory, post colonial theory, queer theory and cultural studies. These sources enriched the Mizrahi struggle but also created multiple venues of struggle and organization in a context of scarce resources. This course will explore the history of the Mizrahi feminisms in Israel, their theoretical sources, practices and dialogue with feminisms of color in the world. We will examine the historical and global connections of Mizrahi Feminisms in Israel starting from the activity of women in late 19th century to date. Seeing Mizrahi Feminisms as products and dissidents of colonialism, nationalism, globalization and liberal feminisms we will try to understand the dialectical tension within which the political claims of Mizrahi Feminisms are made: between a struggle to belong and radical social criticism, between cultural renaissance and westernization, between class and culture and between a class struggle and attempts to be accepted to the elites.