{"product_id":"israeli-feminist-scholarship-9781477307564","title":"Israeli Feminist Scholarship","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe last two decades have given rise to a proliferation of scholarship by Israeli feminists working in diverse fields, ranging from sociology to literature, anthropology, and history. As the Israeli feminist movement continually decentralizes and diversifies, it has become less Eurocentric and heterocentric, making way for pluralistic concerns. Collecting fifteen previously published essays that give voice to this diversity, \u003ci\u003eIsraeli Feminist Scholarship\u003c\/i\u003e showcases articles on Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, Palestinian, and lesbian identities as well as on Israeli women’s roles as mothers, citizens and activists, and soldiers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCiting evidence that these scholars have redefined their object of inquiry as an open site of contested and constructed identity, luminary Esther Fuchs traces the history of Israeli feminism. Among the essays are Jewish historian Margalit Shilo’s study of the New Hebrew Woman, sociologist Ronit Lentin’s analysis of gendered representations of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Israeli Feminist Scholarship: Gender, Zionism, and Difference\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEsther Fuchs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One. The Evolution of Critical Paradigms in Israeli Feminist Scholarship: A Theoretical Model\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEsther Fuchs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two. Politicizing Masculinities: Shahada and Haganah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheila H. Katz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three. The Double or Multiple Image of the New Hebrew Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargalit Shilo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four. The Heroism of Hannah Senesz: An Exercise in Creating Collective National Memory in the State of Israel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudith T. Baumel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five. The Feminisation of Stigma in the Relationship Between Israelis and Shoah Survivors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonit Lentin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six. Gendering Military Service in the Israel Defense Forces\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDafna N. Izraeli\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven. The Halachic Trap: Marriage and Family Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth Halperin-Kaddari\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight. Motherhood as a National Mission: The Construction of Womanhood in the Legal Discourse in Israel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNitza Berkovitch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine. No Home at Home: Women’s Fiction vs. Zionist Practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYaffah Berlovitz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten. Wasteland Revisited: An Ecofeminist Strategy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHannah Naveh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven. Tensions in Israeli Feminism: The Mizrahi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAshkenazi Rift\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenriette Dahan-Kalev\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve. Scholarship, Identity, and Power: Mizrahi Women in Israel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePnina Motzafi-Haller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Thirteen. Reexamining Femicide: Breaking the Silence and Crossing “Scientific” Borders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Fourteen. The Construction of Lesbianism as Nonissue in Israel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErella Shadmi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Fifteen. From Gender to Genders: Feminists Read Women’s Locations in Israeli Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHanna Herzog\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408943718743,"sku":"9781477307564","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477307564.jpg?v=1730504799","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/israeli-feminist-scholarship-9781477307564","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}