Feminism, family, and identity in Israel
Subtitle: women's marital names
By: Michal Rom and Orly Benjamin
Contributors: Benjamin, Orly
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780230100152
Subjects: Feminism; Personal Names
Description: "One of the less discussed achievements of the women's movement is the option to reject the patronymic naming system, i.e. the convention of women replacing their own family names by their husbands' names when they get married. This book offers an analysis of Israeli women's naming practices while tracing vocabularies of nationalism, orientalism and individualism in women's accounts. Such vocabularies are claimed to reinforce the local dominance of familism rendering women's sense of belonging, ambivalent. The book is an account of women's agency and positioning operating within ethnic stratification structures, showing how the achievements of the women's movement require continuous organized protection"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1.Local Context of Identity Formation; title: 2.Naming Identities: Politics of Identity; title: 3.Israeli Ambivalence and Gender Relations; title: 4.The Appropriate Name; title: 5.Getting More Out of It: Identity Positioning through the Name; title: 6.Time and Space Dimensions of Self-Naming; title: 7.Name in Relations; title: 8.Discussion.