Description: 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legacies of early Zionist women.Drawing on extensive archival research and the rarely studied corpus of published and unpublished creative, biographic, and essayistic writings by Zionist women throughout the intense first eighty years of the Zionist project (1880s-1950s), Orian Zakai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.
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Book Title: Fictions of Gender : Women, Femininity, and the Zionist Imagination
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Topic: Feminist, Jewish
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2023
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 11.3 Oz
Author: Orian Zakai
Item Length: 9 in
Book Series: Mcgill-Queen's Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
