Israeli Women's Studies
Israeli women do not enjoy the equality, status, and power often attributed to them by the media and popular culture. Despite significant achievements and progress, as a whole they continue to earn less than their male counterparts, are less visible and influential in the political arena, do not share equal responsibilities or privileges in the military, have unequal rights and freedoms in family life and law, and are less influential in shaping the nation's self image and cultural orientation.
Bringing together classic essays by leading scholars of Israeli culture, this reader exposes the hidden causes of ongoing discrimination and links the restrictions that Israeli women experience to deeply entrenched structures, including colonial legacies, religious traditions, capitalism, nationalism, and ongoing political conflict. In contrast, the essays also explore how women act creatively to affect social change and shape public discourse in less ostensible ways.
Providing balanced perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities, this comprehensive reader reflects both an emerging consensus and exciting diversity in the field. It is the definitive text for courses in Israeli women's studies.
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
