Israeli women's studies
Subtitle: a reader / Esther Fuchs, editor.
Contributors: Fuchs, Esther, 1953-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Women -- Israel -- Social conditions.; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Israel.; Jewish women -- Israel -- Social conditions.; Women's studies.; Feminism -- Israel.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Israeli women's studies / Esther Fuchs; title: The Zionist women's movement in Palestine, 1911-1927 : a sociological analysis / Dafna N. Izraeli; title: Manya Wilbushewitz-Shohat and the winding road to Sejera / Shulamit Reinharz; title: Daughters of the nation : between the public and the private spheres in pre-state Israel / Deborah S. Bernstein; title: From zero to hero : masculinity in Jewish nationalism / Tamar Mayer; title: Bearers of the collective : women and religious legislation in Israel / Nira Yuval-Davis; title: Paradoxes and social boundaries : ultra-orthodox Jewish women and their world / Tamar El-Or; title: The ritualized body : brides, purity, and the mikveh / Susan Sered; title: The status of women in kibbutz society / Judith Buber Agassi; title: Growing up female and Palestinian / Manar Hassan ; translated by Sharon Beéman; title: Between the flag and the banner : dilemmas in the political life of Israeli women / Yael Yishai; title: Homefront and battlefront : the status of Jewish and Palestinian women in Israel / Hanna Herzog; title: Homefront as battlefront : gender, military occupation, and violence against women / Simona Sharoni; title: Citizens of the state and political women / Ayala Emmett; title: Gender performance in a changing military : women soldiers in "masculine" roles / Orna Sasson-Levy; title: Amalia Kahana-Carmon and contemporary Hebrew women's fiction / Esther Fuchs; title: Making the silences speak in Israeli cinema / Ella Shohat; title: The woman as other in Israeli cinema / Orly Lubin; title: Feminism under siege : the vicarious selves of Israeli women writers / Yael S. Feldman.