| Description |
xv, 342 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Israeli women's studies / Esther Fuchs -- 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 -- Ritualized body : brides, purity, and the mikveh / Susan Sered -- Status of women in kibbutz society / Judith Buber Agassi -- Growing up female and Palestinian / Manar Hassan ; translated by Sharon Beeman -- 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. |
| Subject |
Women -- Israel -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Israel.
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Jewish women -- Israel -- Social conditions.
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Women's studies.
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Feminism -- Israel.
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| Added Author |
Fuchs, Esther, 1953-
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| ISBN |
0813536162 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0813536154 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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