| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 314 pages) : illustrations |
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Expanding frontiers : interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality |
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Expanding frontiers.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; "Reaganomics," Ḥok HaHesderim, and the Oslo Boomtime; The Hudna; Knafonomics: Vicky and I; On Ethnographic Data; Wrapped in the Flag of Israel's Bureaucracy: A Road Map; 1. Left Is Right, Right Is Left; Ḥad Horit: Notes on the Hebrew Etymology of Single Motherhood; The Typology of Israel's Single Mothers; On Zionism; Why Mizraḥim Support the Right Wing; Why Mizraḥi Feminists' Hands Are Tied; 2. Protesting and Belonging; Figurations of Agency; Protesting and Belonging: An Argument in Six Parts; Capturing and Conveying Elusive Bureaucratic Torture3. Take 1; Classificatory Schemes of Bureaucratic Logic; Negative Communitas: Bureaucracy's "Tough Love"; The Plus-Minus Model of Torture; The Zone of Repulsion: Plus-Plus Relationships of Pain; Documents as Implements of Torture; Bureaucracy's Essence: GendeRace; Response to Bureaucracy: Bracketing; Impossible Articulation, Impossible Agency; 4. Take 2; 5. Take 3; 6. The Price of National Security; Knafoland-The End; This Is Exactly What We Did; Epilogue: Israel, Summer 2011; Afterword(s); Bureaucratic Torture: When Agency Becomes ImpossibleThe Translation Block; Agency; Torture; One People One Heart: The War on Gaza 2014; The New Black Panthers, or HaLo Neḥmadim; Ḥok HaHesderim 2014; Labor Hill B-Jamusin; The Ḥamas Salary Fiasco; Operation Brother's Keeper; The War on Gaza-Protective Edge; Under the Smokescreen of War; Elections 2015: The Center Moves Further to the Right; The Mizraḥi Cultural Renaissance; The Steady Drumbeat of Eternal Return; Acknowledgments; Glossary of Hebrew, Arabic, and Yiddish Terms; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 22, 2018) |
| Subject |
Single mothers -- Israel -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Single mothers -- Israel -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Single mothers -- Economic conditions
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Single mothers -- Social conditions
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Israel
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781496207500 |
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1496207505 |
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1496205545 |
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9781496205544 |
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