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Book SynopsisUnlike the literary traditions of the United States, England, and France, the first century of Hebrew literature was lacking in women novelists; women tended to write poetry, while prose fiction was mainly the domain of male writers. This book presents a comparative analysis of Israeli fiction by women and some of its Western models.
Trade ReviewFeldman has produced a provocative look at the tension between Israeli nationalism and an emerging feminist consciousness in Israeli women's fiction. Tikkun Feldman's own style is an achievement in its own right... [her] bifocal outlook on both continents makes the book an exciting experience for two kinds of audiences, Eastern and Western, female and male scholars and writers... will generate fruitful scholarly discussions and will be considered milestones in feminist studies in Israel as well as the United States. -- Yona Shapira Hebrew Studies a fascinating study, full of surprises and insights for scholars of Israeli culture and literature and for feminists everywhere -- Amia Lieblich Nashim
Table of ContentsIntroduction I. "Running with She-Wolves"? II. The "New Hebrew Woman" III. The Subject of Postmodernism IV. Isreal and the European "Woman Question" One: Emerging Subjects I. The Masked Autobiography: Genre and Gender II. What Does a Woman Want? Shulamit Lapid and the Feminist Romance Two: Alterity Revisited: Gender Theory and Israeli Literary Feminism I. Beauvior's Drama of Subjectivity II. Beauvoir's "Daughters": Otherness as Difference III. Postmodernism's "Other": Mother's Body, Mother's Tongue IV. Empowering the M/Other? Three: Empowering the Other: Amalia Kahana-Carmon I. Feminine, Feminist, or Modernist? II. A Brotherhood of Outsiders: Women/Jews/Blacks in Up in Montifer III. The Brotherhood That Cannot Hold Four: Who's Afraid of Androgyny? Virginia Woolf's "Gender" avant la lettre I. Untangling the Homoerotic Web: Between Orlando and A Room of One's Own II. Who's Afraid of Father and Mother(hood)? Back To The Lighthouse III. Jewish Mothers and Israeli Androgyny Five: Israeli Androgyny Under Siege: Shulamith Hareven I. Gendered Selves in City of Many Days: Same, Different, or Repressed? II. Androgynous "Jewish Parents"? Not in a War Zone! III. Trauma and Homoeroticism: Loneliness, an Israeli Story Six: The Leaning Ivory Tower: Feminist Politics I. Oedipal Tyrannies: Woolf's Psychopolitics in Three Guineas II. The Leaning Israeli Tower: Feminism Reinvented III. Monotheistic Tyrannies: Israeli Psychopolitics Seven: 1948-Hebrew "Gender" and Zionist Ideology: Netiva Ben Yehuda Eight: Beyond The Feminist Romance: Ruth Almog I. From The Madwoman in the Attic to The Women's Room II. The Sins of Their Father(s); or, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl III. Love and Work? Embracing the M/Other in Roots of Air IV. From Hysteria to HerStory: Artistic Mending Afterword: The Nineties-Prelude to a Postmodernist Millennium?
