Research Catalog

Title

Fictions of gender : women, femininity, and the Zionist imagination / Orian Zakai.

Author

Zakai, Orian, 1974-

Publication

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

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Details

Description

xii, 196 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

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 Drawing on extensive archival research and the rarely studied corpus of published and unpublished creative, biographic, and essayistic writings by Zionist women throughout the intense first eighty years of the Zionist project (1880s-1950s), Orian Zakai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

Series Statement

McGill-Queen's Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies series ; 1

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Hebrew literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• Hebrew literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism
• Hebrew literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
• Jewish women authors > 19th century
• Jewish women authors > 20th century
• Women in literature
• Feminism in literature
• Feminism > Israel
• Zionism
• Écrits de femmes hébraïques > Histoire et critique
• Littérature hébraïque moderne > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique
• Littérature hébraïque moderne > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
• Écrivaines juives > 19e siècle
• Écrivaines juives > 20e siècle
• Femmes dans la littérature
• Féminisme dans la littérature
• Féminisme > Israël
• Sionisme
• Feminism
• Feminism in literature
• Hebrew literature, Modern
• Jewish women authors
• Women in literature
• Zionism
• Israel

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Introduction: Reading from the Rift: Zionism, Feminism, and Women's Writing -- Women, Femininity, and the National-Patriarchal Home -- Zionist Women Writers and the Space of the Other -- Gender and Ethnicity in Zionist Women's Writing -- From Women's Writing to National Security -- Epilogue: The Father, the Daughter, and the Question of the Korban.

ISBN

• 9780228017066
• 0228017068
• 9780228017059
• 022801705X

OCLC

• on1350839008
• SCSB-14568388

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library