Soviet state decided that promoting greater diversity of women’s accomplishments and roles suited modernization and militarization objectives, yet subjects continued to cling to traditionally defined gender roles and stereotypes. As Choi Chatterjee has
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Gendered Images and Soviet Subjects
How the Komsomol Archive Enriched My Understanding of Gender in Soviet War Culture
Adrienne M. Harris
The Third Angle in Israel Studies
Boundaries between Government and Non-governmental Entities in Early Israel
Paula Kabalo and Esther Suissa
immigration reached its zenith. 15 The complementary arrangement that existed between the immigrant organizations and the state did not solve the core problems: discrimination, stereotyping, contempt for culture, and, of course, geographic, political, and
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 66–86 (21 total)
Rebranding Desolation
The Allure of Israel’s Desert Landscapes
Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb
insular social networks, lower levels of national assimilation, lower income, lack of local jobs, negative stereotyping, low self-image, weak local place attachment, and years of significant underrepresentation in both political and non-political sectors
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 26–50 (25 total)
Manijeh Nasrabadi, Maryam Aras, Alexander Djumaev, Sina Zekavat, Mary Elaine Hegland, Rosa Holman, and Amina Tawasil
subjects for musicological research. It seems that Merchant’s book, among its other special tasks, can help local musicologists to overcome stereotypes and to look at their own musical society with new eyes, taking women’s musical activity seriously and
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 113–130 (18 total)
Hebrew Literature in the ‘World Republic of Letters’
Translation and Reception, 1918–2018
Yael Halevi-Wise and Madeleine Gottesman
Moscati (2009) explains that before Italians had become familiar with the complexities of Israeli society through its literature, they imagined Israel based on stereotypes of militarism and kibbutz life. Later, Italians preferred historical fiction that
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 1–25 (25 total)
Ken Stein, Yael Berda, Galia Golan, Pnina Peri, Yuval Benziman, Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, Muzna Awayed-Bishara, and Aziza Khazzoom
actually accepting that the other group is also part of the individual’s identity. The ‘self’ in the Hebrew autobiographies is comprised not only of the mainstream stereotypical national narrative, but of other opposing dimensions as well. This complexity
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 171–188 (18 total)
Ten Years After
Communism and Feminism Revisited
Francisca de Haan, Kristen Ghodsee, Krassimira Daskalova, Magdalena Grabowska, Jasmina Lukić, Chiara Bonfiglioli, Raluca Maria Popa, and Alexandra Ghit
similar socialist and nonsocialist countries at similar stages of economic development. The scholarship of Maxine Molyneux therefore provides an important corrective to the static and one-dimensional stereotypes about state-socialist women’s organizations
“I’ll Do Business with Anyone”
Arab Teachers in Jewish Schools as a Disruptive Innovation
Rakefet Ron Erlich, Shahar Gindi, and Michal Hisherik
side by side in the country, reality can be transformed as well.” Teachers expressed their desire to change Israeli-Jewish citizens’ stereotypes of Arab citizens. Jamila, an art teacher, spoke of a project that she initiated with a fellow teacher who
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 72–91 (20 total)
Zoia Tarasova
much in order to comply with certain stereotypical norms of their gender-specific behavior as to be able to confront and retaliate against a threat from without, that is a non-Sakha or nonhuman enemy (e.g., impersonated by alcohol). Its key feature is
Women's Work and Men
Generational and Class Dimensions of Men's Resistance to Women's Paid Employment in State-Socialist Poland (1956–1980)
Natalia Jarska
short Stalinist period when women's work in industry was promoted and celebrated as emancipatory and meaningful, reinforced negative stereotypes of female industrial workers. Małgorzata Fidelis has termed the post-1956 period in Polish state employment