Wrapped in the flag of Israel : Mizrahi single mothers and bureaucratic torture / / Smadar Lavie ; with a new afterword by the author

• Autore: Lavie Smadar
• Pubblicazione: Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2018
• Edizione: Revised edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 306.87432095694
• Soggetto topico: Single mothers - Israel - Social conditions - 21st century; Single mothers - Israel - Economic conditions - 21st century; Mizrahim - Israel - Social conditions - 21st century; Mizrahim - Israel - Economic conditions - 21st century; Feminists - Political activity - Israel; Social movements - Israel
• Soggetto geografico: Israel Social conditions 21st century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1. Left is right, right is left : Zionism and Israel's single mothers -- Chapter 2. Protesting and belonging : when the agency of identity politics becomes impossible -- Chapter 3. Take 1: The gende race essence of bureaucratic torture -- Chapter 4. Take 2: Ideology, welfare, and single mothers -- Chapter 5. Take 3: Diary of a welfare mother -- Chapter 6. The price of national security.
• Sommario/riassunto: Weaving together memoir, auto-ethnography, political analysis, and cultural critique, Lavie equates bureaucratic entanglements with pain--and, arguably, torture--to examine the conundrum of loving and staying loyal to a state that repeatedly inflicts pain on its non-European Jewish women citizens.
• Titolo autorizzato: Wrapped in the flag of Israel
• ISBN: 1-4962-0748-3; 1-4962-0750-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811319703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Expanding frontiers.