Fuchs, Esther, ed. Israeli Feminist Scholarship. Gender, Zionism, and Difference. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2014.
More than a dozen scholars give voice to cutting-edge postcolonial trends (from ecofeminism to gender identity in family life) that question traditional approaches to Zionism while highlighting nationalism as the core issue of Israeli feminist scholarship today.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction. Israeli Feminist Scholarship: Gender, Zionism, and Difference
Esther Fuchs
Chapter One. The Evolution of Critical Paradigms in Israeli Feminist Scholarship: A Theoretical Model
Esther Fuchs
Chapter Two. Politicizing Masculinities: Shahada and Haganah
Sheila H. Katz
Chapter Three. The Double or Multiple Image of the New Hebrew Woman
Margalit Shilo
Chapter Four. The Heroism of Hannah Senesz: An Exercise in Creating Collective National Memory in the State of Israel
Judith T. Baumel
Chapter Five. The Feminisation of Stigma in the Relationship Between Israelis and Shoah Survivors
Ronit Lentin
Chapter Six. Gendering Military Service in the Israel Defense Forces
Dafna N. Izraeli
Chapter Seven. The Halachic Trap: Marriage and Family Life
Ruth Halperin-Kaddari
Chapter Eight. Motherhood as a National Mission: The Construction of Womanhood in the Legal Discourse in Israel
Nitza Berkovitch
Chapter Nine. No Home at Home: Women’s Fiction vs. Zionist Practice
Yaffah Berlovitz
Chapter Ten. Wasteland Revisited: An Ecofeminist Strategy
Hannah Naveh
Chapter Eleven. Tensions in Israeli Feminism: The Mizrahi-Ashkenazi Rift
Henriette Dahan-Kalev
Chapter Twelve. Scholarship, Identity, and Power: Mizrahi Women in Israel
Pnina Motzafi-Haller
Chapter Thirteen. Reexamining Femicide: Breaking the Silence and Crossing “Scientific” Borders
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Chapter Fourteen. The Construction of Lesbianism as Nonissue in Israel
Erella Shadmi
Chapter Fifteen. From Gender to Genders: Feminists Read Women’s Locations in Israeli Society
Hanna Herzog
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
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