ISBN:
9780228017066
,
9780228017059
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 196 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2023
Series Statement:
McGill-Queen's Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies series 1
Series Statement:
McGill-Queen's Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
892.409/3522
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1999
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Autorin
;
Patriarchat
;
Feminismus
;
Jüdin
;
Zionismus
;
Hebrew literature / Women authors / History and criticism
;
Hebrew literature, Modern / 19th century / History and criticism
;
Hebrew literature, Modern / 20th century / History and criticism
;
Jewish women authors / 19th century
;
Jewish women authors / 20th century
;
Women in literature
;
Feminism in literature
;
Feminism / Israel
;
Zionism
;
Feminism
;
Feminism in literature
;
Hebrew literature, Modern
;
Jewish women authors
;
Women in literature
;
Zionism
;
Israel
;
1800-1999
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Zionismus
;
Jüdin
;
Autorin
;
Feminismus
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Patriarchat
;
Geschichte 1800-1999
Abstract:
"In the wake of the #MeToo movement, gender scholars and activists have asked whether a reconcilliation between Zionism and feminism is possible in the current political landscape. Fictions of Gender explores the contemporary controversies surrounding both Zionism and feminism, and how they are prefigured in the experiences and legacies of early Zionist women. Drawing on extensive archival research and the rarely studied corpus of published and unpublished creative, biographic, and essayistic writings by Zionist women throughout the intense first eighty years of the Zionist project (1880s-1950s), Orian Zakai situates Zionist women within the larger histories of colonization and the politics of ethnicity in Israel/Palestine. At the core of this study lie contemporary debates about the relationship between feminism, nationalism, and colonialism. Shifting long-standing paradigms in the scholarship on Modern Hebrew literature and culture, Zakai confronts the study of gender and Zionism with the critical sensibilities of contemporary global feminism. Read both critically and compassionately, the writings of women authors and activists not only reveal lives full of contradictions, but also point to cultural depth structures that shape the politics of Israel/Palestine to this very day. Fictions of Gender rethinks Israeli feminism through the lens of contemporary feminism, intersectionality, and post-colonialism."
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Reading from the Rift: Zionism, Feminism, and Women's Writing -- Women, Femininity, and the National-Patriarchal Home -- Zionist Women Writers and the Space of the Other -- Gender and Ethnicity in Zionist Women's Writing -- From Women's Writing to National Security -- Epilogue: The Father, the Daughter, and the Question of the Korban
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