Fictions of Gender : Women, Femininity, and the Zionist Imagination / Orian Zakai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zakai, Orian, Author.

Series:

McGill-Queen’s Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism in literature.

Feminism--Israel.

Feminism.

Hebrew literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Hebrew literature.

Hebrew literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.

Hebrew literature, Modern.

Hebrew literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Jewish women authors--19th century.

Jewish women authors.

Jewish women authors--20th century.

Women in literature.

Zionism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 6 photos

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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legacies of early Zionist women.Drawing on extensive archival research and the rarely studied corpus of published and unpublished creative, biographic, and essayistic writings by Zionist women throughout the intense first eighty years of the Zionist project (1880s–1950s), Orian Zakai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 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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Reading from the Rift

A Tale of Two Sisters

Gendered Plots

The National Caregiver

Metaphors of Diminishment

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)

ISBN:

9780228018278

OCLC:

1359605427