Kibbutz Journal
Subtitle: Reflections on Gender, Race & Militarism in Israel
Publisher: Trilogy Publications; Trilogy Books; Brand: Trilogy Books
Published: March 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780962387968
Subjects: General; Middle East - Israel; Women's Studies - General; Israel - History; Politics / Current Events; Description and travel; Ferguson, Kathy E.; Israel; Journeys; Social conditions; History: World
Description: In this thought-provoking account of the author's four-month stay on a kibbutz in Israel, she, her Israeli-born husband, and their two small sons have come from their home in Hawaii for an extended visit with relatives. Thus begins her struggle to understand the complexity of social and political life in Israel, and how this will ultimately impact her family.

From an "outsider yet insider" point of view, she wrestles daily with the inconsistencies that make life in Israel at once so vital and so unsettling, simultaneously exposing the parochialism of Israeli perspectives and the sheltered existence of many white, Christian Americans.