Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Studies Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
37,3 (2022) 109–133
Keywords:
Women on postage stamps
;
Feminism
;
Collective memory
;
Postage stamp design
;
Gender identity
;
Israel Historiography
Abstract:
In this article we focus on the gendered national construction on Israeli stamps commemorating renowned women over the course of Israel's history. We analyze gender construction on both the selection of the stamps and in their design. Based on analyses of the social role of women in Israeli historiography, archival documents, interviews with fourteen key figures involved in conceiving and designing the stamps, and the way stamp design constructs gendered memory, we outline major aspects of commemorating women in stamps: gender blindness, women's accomplishments, identity politics, and the emergence of gender as a theme. These are discussed in the context of gendering in official commemoration, the development of feminist historiography and discourse in Israel, and the conjunction of these issues and stamp design.
DOI:
10.3167/isr.2022.370306
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