Dynamics of Gender Borders : : Women in Israel’s Cooperative Settlements / / Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui, Rachel Sharaby.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
• HerausgeberIn: Fogiel-Bijaoui, Sylvie ,; Sharaby, Rachel ,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 340 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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