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Israeli women's studies : a reader / Esther Fuchs, editor.

Contributor(s): Fuchs, Esther, 1953-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xv, 342 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0813536162 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780813536163 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Women -- Israel -- Social conditions | Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Israel | Jewish women -- Israel -- Social conditions | Women's studies | Feminism -- IsraelDDC classification: 305.42/095694 LOC classification: HQ1728.5 | .I88 2005Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Israeli women's studies / Esther Fuchs -- The Zionist women's movement in Palestine, 1911-1927 : a sociological analysis / Dafna N. Izraeli -- Manya Wilbushewitz-Shohat and the winding road to Sejera / Shulamit Reinharz -- Daughters of the nation : between the public and the private spheres in pre-state Israel / Deborah S. Bernstein -- From zero to hero : masculinity in Jewish nationalism / Tamar Mayer -- Bearers of the collective : women and religious legislation in Israel / Nira Yuval-Davis -- Paradoxes and social boundaries : ultra-orthodox Jewish women and their world / Tamar El-Or -- The ritualized body : brides, purity, and the mikveh / Susan Sered -- The status of women in kibbutz society / Judith Buber Agassi -- Growing up female and Palestinian / Manar Hassan ; translated by Sharon Beéman -- Between the flag and the banner : dilemmas in the political life of Israeli women / Yael Yishai -- Homefront and battlefront : the status of Jewish and Palestinian women in Israel / Hanna Herzog -- Homefront as battlefront : gender, military occupation, and violence against women / Simona Sharoni -- Citizens of the state and political women / Ayala Emmett -- Gender performance in a changing military : women soldiers in "masculine" roles / Orna Sasson-Levy -- Amalia Kahana-Carmon and contemporary Hebrew women's fiction / Esther Fuchs -- Making the silences speak in Israeli cinema / Ella Shohat -- The woman as other in Israeli cinema / Orly Lubin -- Feminism under siege : the vicarious selves of Israeli women writers / Yael S. Feldman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Israeli women's studies / Esther Fuchs -- The Zionist women's movement in Palestine, 1911-1927 : a sociological analysis / Dafna N. Izraeli -- Manya Wilbushewitz-Shohat and the winding road to Sejera / Shulamit Reinharz -- Daughters of the nation : between the public and the private spheres in pre-state Israel / Deborah S. Bernstein -- From zero to hero : masculinity in Jewish nationalism / Tamar Mayer -- Bearers of the collective : women and religious legislation in Israel / Nira Yuval-Davis -- Paradoxes and social boundaries : ultra-orthodox Jewish women and their world / Tamar El-Or -- The ritualized body : brides, purity, and the mikveh / Susan Sered -- The status of women in kibbutz society / Judith Buber Agassi -- Growing up female and Palestinian / Manar Hassan ; translated by Sharon Beéman -- Between the flag and the banner : dilemmas in the political life of Israeli women / Yael Yishai -- Homefront and battlefront : the status of Jewish and Palestinian women in Israel / Hanna Herzog -- Homefront as battlefront : gender, military occupation, and violence against women / Simona Sharoni -- Citizens of the state and political women / Ayala Emmett -- Gender performance in a changing military : women soldiers in "masculine" roles / Orna Sasson-Levy -- Amalia Kahana-Carmon and contemporary Hebrew women's fiction / Esther Fuchs -- Making the silences speak in Israeli cinema / Ella Shohat -- The woman as other in Israeli cinema / Orly Lubin -- Feminism under siege : the vicarious selves of Israeli women writers / Yael S. Feldman.

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