Calling the Equality Bluff
Calling the Equality Bluff

Author: Barbara Swirski

Publisher: New York : Pergamon Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13:

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Calling the equality bluff offers a broad picture of the experience of women in Israel, focusing on feminist concerns and on the unique aspects of Israeli society. This feminist anthology covers a wide range of issues, including the spectre of war, life in a Jewish state, family, work, the kibbutz and the moshav, politics, and Israeli feminism. Each of the seven sections begins with an article designed to give the reader an overview of the topic, followed by articles which examine specific issues and questions. In addition, special case studies are presented which add a personal dimension and serve to illustrate theoretical points or research findings. While the focus is on secular Jewish women, material is also included on religious, Arab, and oriental women.

Jewish Feminism in Israel
Jewish Feminism in Israel

Author: Kalpana Misra

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781584653257

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A dynamic and authentic representation of feminism in Israel, by some of its leading exponents and activists.

Israeli Women's Studies
Israeli Women's Studies

Author: Esther Fuchs

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780813536163

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The purpose of the present anthology is to bring together, select, and organize the publishing work that has been done in the last two decades. The idea is to highlight current state of the art essays and point to an evolutionary trajectory from the earlier pioneering essays to the voices that define the field today.

Israelis in Conflict
Israelis in Conflict

Author: Adriana Kemp

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2014-06-01

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1837641811

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Globalisation and increased cultural heterogeneity have had a major impact on states whose identity has been defined in terms of a single, often socially constructed, allegiance to the state and a single hegemonic ideology. Nowhere are changing notions of identity more prevalent than in Israel, a country whose dominant (Western-Jewish) society has been subject to understanding their past and present in terms of a single ideology of state formation -- Zionism. This book challenges some of the traditional analytical paradigms prevalent in Israeli social science for the past fifty years.

The Women and War Reader
The Women and War Reader

Author: Lois Ann Lorentzen

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1998-07

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 0814751458

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Women play many roles during wartime. This compelling study brings together the work of foremost scholars on women and war to address questions of ethnicity, women and the war complex, peacemaking, motherhood, and more. It leaves behind outdated arguments about militarist men and pacifist women, while still recognizing differences in men's and women's relationships to war. .

The Politics of Motherhood
The Politics of Motherhood

Author: Alexis Jetter

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780874517804

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Essays and interviews explode the myth of apolitical motherhood by showing how 20th century women have politicized their role as mothers in a wide range of social contexts.

Sappho in the Holy Land
Sappho in the Holy Land

Author: Chava Frankfort-Nachmias

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0791483908

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This unique collection examines the experience of lesbians in Israel, providing insight into some of the institutions that have helped shape that experience. The book analyzes and interprets how culturally specific political, ideological, and social systems construct lesbian identities, experiences, and dilemmas, and it also explores how a specific society is seen, understood, and interpreted from a lesbian perspective. Written by scholars, professionals, and grassroots activists representing different sectors of the Israeli political spectrum, this book provides a broad perspective of the lesbian experience in Israel.

Unsettling Settler Societies
Unsettling Settler Societies

Author: Daiva Stasiulis

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1995-06-05

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1446266222

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`Settler societies′ are those in which Europeans have settled and become politically dominant over indigenous people, and where a heterogenous society has developed in class, ethnic and racial terms. They offer a unique prism for understanding the complex relations of gender, race, ethnicity and class in contemporary societies. Unsettling Settler Societies brings together a distinguished cast of contributors to explore these relations in both material and discursive terms. They look at the relation between indigenous and settler/immigrant populations, focusing in particular on women′s conditions and politics. The book examines how the process of development of settler societies, and the positions of indigenous and migrant peoples within them, reflects the place of these societies (New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Algeria and Israel) within a global economy.

Language and the Politics of Sexuality
Language and the Politics of Sexuality

Author: E. Levon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-06-30

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0230281311

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Examining how lesbian and gay Israelis negotiate the linguistic performance of their sexualities and the constraints of Israeli national ideologies, this book broadens current understandings of the uses and effects of variation in language and details the interconnections between language use and sexual, national and political identities.