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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821395903321

Titolo

Dynamics of gender borders : women in Israel's cooperative settlements / / edited by Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui and Rachel Sharaby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg : , : Magnes, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-11-046409-8

3-11-046621-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 pages)

Disciplina

305.4095694

Soggetti

Women - Israel

Sex role - Israel

Sex differences - Religious aspects

Kibbutzim

Moshavim

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Hidden Pains of Motherhood -- Orthodox, Zionist, Socialist, Female -- Women Writing Kibbutz -- Tripartite Division of Labor by Gender -- “Their Youth Had Been Set on the Altar” -- “With This Strength We Went” -- Change and Reproduction of Gender Roles in Moshavim of Immigrants from Islamic Countries -- A Pencil, a Baby, and What’s Between -- Women’s Entrepreneurial Initiatives in the Moshavim -- Back to the Old Village? -- Emotional Restraint, Family Patterns and Gender Dynamics in the Second and Third Generation in the Kibbutzim -- Kibbutz: Transformation, Technocracy, and Gender -- The Politics of Cooptation -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.