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Women and gender in early Jewish and Palestinian nationalism / Sheila H. Katz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Katz, Sheila H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Political activity--Israel--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Women--Political activity--Palestine--History--20th century.
- Jews--Israel--Identity.
- Jews.
- Jewish women--Political activity--Palestine--History--20th century.
- Jewish women.
- Jewish women--Political activity--Israel--History--20th century.
- Women, Palestinian Arab--Political activity--History--20th century.
- Women, Palestinian Arab.
- Nationalism and feminism--Palestine--History--20th century.
- Nationalism and feminism.
- Nationalism and feminism--Israel--History--20th century.
- Palestinian Arabs--Israel--Ethnic identity.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ''In this landmark book, Katz skillfully demonstrates the complex ways that gender ideology was inextricably linked to and reinforced the formation of both Palestinian Arab and Jewish Zionist national identities in the first half of the 20th century.
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; Preface xi; Part I. Texts and Contexts; 1. (En)Gendering Nations: Introduction 3; 2. Reframing Questions: Scaffolds of Scholarship 17; 3. Historicizing Narratives I: Under the Ottomans 29; 4. Historicizing Narratives II: Under the British 51; Part II. Imagining Communities; 5. Politicizing Masculinities: Shahada and Haganah 69; 6. Feminizing Lands: 'Ird and Ard, Adam and Adama 82; 7. Imagining Women: Umma and Um, 'Am and Imma 95; Part III. Hierarchies of Difference; 8. Civilizing Women: Hygiene and Lace 109; 9. Educating Girls: Reading and Revolution 120
- 10. Essentializing Difference: Gendering the "Other" 134Part IV. Founding and Confounding the Boundaries; 11. Challenging Patriarchy: For the Sake of the Nation 147; 12. Sacrificing Sisters: Difference versus Power 165; Notes 181; Bibliography 197; Index 209
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-207) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-3131-1
- OCLC:
- 172758914
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