Full Description
This volume of essays by prominent researchers in Israeli history and society is the second of two interconnected volumes engaging with the concept of 'women's time'. It brings a feminist gaze to a wide variety of fascinating issues facing contemporary Israeli society, first by examining the private, 'natural' sphere of women's experience, and then by addressing the interaction between the private and the national spheres as reflected in the media and in religious and military discourses. 'Women's time' involves resistance to self-evident and often patriarchal truths and knowledge, and, by creating a model for the investigation of other obliterated narratives, serves the well-being of all, in Israel and beyond.
Contents
Introduction, Hannah Naveh; the politics of honour - patriarchy, the state and the murder of women in the name of family honour, Manar Hasan; familism, postmodernity and the state - the case of Israel, Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui; women and the changing Israeli kibbutz - a preliminary three-stage theory, Amia Leiblich; "career women" or "working women"? change versus stability for young Palestinian women in Israel, Khwala Abu Baker; normalizing inequality - portrayals of women in the Israeli media, Dafna Lemish; women of the wall - radical feminism as an opportunity for a new discourse in Israel, Leah Shakdiel; "gone to soldiers" - feminism and the military in Israel, Orly Lubin.
