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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779671403321

Autore

Pinto Diana

Titolo

Israel has moved [[electronic resource] /] / Diana Pinto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts, : Harvard University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-674-07566-8

0-674-07563-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 pages)

Disciplina

956.9405/4

Soggetti

Economic history

Geschichte Asiens

Political science

Religion

Social history

HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine

Israel Economic conditions

Israel Politics and government

Israel Religion

Israel Social conditions

Israel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the French.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE INTERGALACTIC CAFÉ, OR BEN- GURION AIRPORT -- 2 THE TWO ROADS TO JERUSALEM -- 3 THE LESSON FROM EAST TALPIOT -- 4 IN THE EYE OF THE STORM -- 5 ROOTED UTOPIAS -- 6 THE AQUARIUM -- 7 THE BUBBLE -- 8 THE TENT -- 9 BETWEEN MEMORY AND MEMORY CHIP -- 10 STARGATE -- EPILOGUE: ISRAEL QUO VADIS? -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Sommario/riassunto

Israel has changed. The country was born in Europe's shadow, haunted by the Holocaust and inspired by the Enlightenment. But for Israelis today, Europe is hardly relevant, and the country's ties to the broader West, even to America, are fraying. Where is Israel heading? How do citizens of an increasingly diverse nation see themselves globally and



historically? In this revealing portrait of the new Israel, Diana Pinto presents a country simultaneously moving forward and backward, looking outward and turning in on itself. In business, Israel is forging new links with the giants of Asia, and its booming science and technology sectors are helping define the future for the entire world. But in politics and religion, Israelis are increasingly self-absorbed, building literal and metaphorical walls against hostile neighbors and turning to ancient religious precepts for guidance here and now. Pinto captures the new moods and mindsets, the anxieties and hopes of Israelis today in sharply drawn sketches of symbolically charged settings. She takes us on the roads to Jerusalem, to border control at Ben Gurion Airport, to a major Israeli conference in Jerusalem, to a hill overlooking the Dome of the Rock and Temple Mount, to the heart of Israel's high-tech economy, and to sparkling new malls and restaurants where people of different identities share nothing more than a desire to ignore one another. Vivid and passionate but underpinned by deep analysis, this is a profound and sometimes unsettling account of a country that is no longer where we might think.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784375703321

Titolo

Generations [[electronic resource] ] : academic feminists in dialogue / / Devoney Looser and E. Ann Kaplan, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8166-8785-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KaplanE. Ann

LooserDevoney <1967->

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Feminism and education - United States

Feminist theory - United States

Universities and colleges - United States - Sociological aspects

Women college students - United States - Social conditions

Women college teachers - United States - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Comprised of original essays presented at various conferences held



between 1993 and 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction 1: An Exchange; Introduction 2: Two Essays: Feminism, Aging, and Changing Paradigms; Sisters Are Doing It to Themselves; Generational Difficulties;  or, The Fear of a Barren History; Black Female Spectatorship and the Dilemma of Tokenism; Talking Across; Feminist Psychology at Thirtysomething: Feminism, Gender, and Psychology's Ways of Knowing; Shifting Locations: Third World Feminists and Institutional Aporias; Jason Dreams, Victoria Works Out; An Open Letter to Institutional Mothers

Dancing through the Mother Field: On Aggression, Making Nice, and Reading SymptomsWorking Mother; "Somewhere in Particular": Generations, Feminism, Class Conflict, and the Terms of Academic Success; The Objectification of Julia: Texts, Textures, and Contexts of Black Women in American Television Situation Comedies; When Feminism Met Postfeminism: The Rhetoric of a Relationship; Feminist Misogyny;  or, What Kind of a Woman Are You?; Three Feminist Mother-Daughter Pairs in the Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century United States

Fissuring Time, Suturing Space: Reading Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the WorldThe Anxiety of Affluence: Movements, Markets, and Lesbian Feminist Generation(s); Feminist Family Values;  or, Growing Old-and Growing Up-with the Women's Movement; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Composed of essays from academic women at various professional stages-from established scholars to junior professors to graduate students-this collection illuminates the debates of feminist histories and future legacies, while analyzing the challenges of "passing the torch."