Dynamics of Gender Borders: Women in Israel’s Cooperative Settlements

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2017

Dynamics of Gender Borders

Women in Israel’s Cooperative Settlements

Edited by: Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui and Rachel Sharaby

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110466218

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About this book

Resting on the multifaceted and multicultural voices of women – secular and religious, old-timers and newcomers, at the center or on the periphery of their communities – it brings into sharper focus rarely raised issues related to gender borders and to the private and public spheres.
Beyond the specific society they treat, these essays contribute to our understanding of the social mechanisms that (re)produce gender inequality in modernity, in its socialist, capitalist, or postindustrial versions.
They also provide additional evidence for the limits of any attempt to achieve gender equality by focusing on the transformation of women, without challenging hegemonic masculinities.

Author / Editor information

Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui, College of Management - Academic Studies, Rishon LeZion; Rachel Sharaby, Ashkelon Academic College, Israel.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui and Rachel Sharaby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Reconstructing the Private and Public Spheres Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui and Rachel Sharabi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Challenging Gender Borders in the Pre-State Period
1. Minimizing the Private Sphere in the Kibbutz
The Hidden Pains of Motherhood Child-Raising Diaries of the First Generation of Kibbutz Women Tsafrira Shaham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Orthodox, Zionist, Socialist, Female A New Identity for Women in the Early Religious Kibbutzim Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Women Writing Kibbutz The Development of a Women’s Literature in the kibbutz movement in the Pre-State Period Yaffah Berlovitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
2. Merging the Spheres in the Moshav
Tripartite Division of Labor by Gender “Feminine,” “Masculine” and “Neutral” in the First Moshavei ʿOvdim Rachel Sharaby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
“Their Youth Had Been Set on the Altar” The Women Workers Movement and Moshav Women – Between Empowerment and Subordination Bat-Sheva Margalit Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
“With This Strength We Went” Moshav Women in the British Forces during the World War II Anat Granit-HaCohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
II. Negotiating Gender Borders after the Foundation of the State
1. (De)gendering Marginality in the Moshav?
Change and Reproduction of Gender Roles in Moshavim of Immigrants from Islamic Countries Rachel Sharaby and Naʿama Hadad-Kedem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
A Pencil, a Baby, and What’s Between Literacy and Empowerment among Moshav Women Esther Schely-Newman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Women’s Entrepreneurial Initiatives in the Moshavim A Case Study of the Lev Hasharon Regional Council Tzipi Saada and Michael Sofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Back to the Old Village? Pre-Modern Gender Values in the Post-Privatization Moshav Avi Shnider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
2. (De)gendering Marginality in the Kibbutz?
Emotional Restraint, Family Patterns and Gender Dynamics in the Second and Third Generation in the Kibbutzim Gali Palti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Kibbutz: Transformation, Technocracy, and Gender Menachem Topel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
The Politics of Cooptation The Kibbutz Movements’ “Gender Equality Departments,” 1982–2015 Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Academics in the fields of Israel and Gender Studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 340
Keywords: Israel; Kibbuz; Gender; Sozialistische Utopien

eBook

Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783110466218

Hardcover

Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783110463750