The Chosen Body : The Politics of the Body in Israeli Society / Meira Weiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss, Meira, Author.

Series:

Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.) : 2 tables

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book examines how the social and cultural paradigms of contemporary Israel are articulated through the body. To construct a panoramic view of how the Israeli body is chosen, regulated, cared for, and ultimately made perfect, the author draws upon some twenty years of ethnographic research in Israel in a range of subjects. These include premarital and prenatal screening, the regulation of the body and its imagery among appearance-impaired children and their families, the screening and sanctifying of the body as part of the bereavement and commemoration of fallen soldiers, and the discourse of the chosen body as it surfaces during terrorist attacks, military socialization, war, and the peace process.

Contents:

Frontmatter

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1 THE BODY AS SOCIAL MIRROR

2 CHOOSING THE BODY: PREGNANCY, BIRTH, MILITARY, WAR, AND DEATH

3 SANCTIFYING THE CHOSEN BODY: BEREAVEMENT AND COMMEMORATION

4 ENGENDERING THE CHOSEN BODY: WOMEN AND SOLDIERING

5 THE CHOSEN BODY AND THE MEDIA

6 WRITING THE BODY

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-1736-X

OCLC:

1294424377