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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 56–88.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Smadar Lavie This paper analyzes the failure of Israel’s Ashkenazi (Jewish, of European, Yiddish-speaking origin) feminist peace movement to work within the context of Middle East demographics, cultures, and histories and, alternately, the inabilities of the Mizrahi (Oriental) feminist movement...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 November 2017
... nation. This project simultaneously empowers women and enables state violence against Palestinians on Haram ash-Sharif. Scholarship that has examined Israel’s messianic right-wing women’s activism has overlooked their Ashkenazi whiteness and their middle-class privileged status in Israel. The race-class...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 264–266.
Published: 01 July 2016
.... Following the protest and its many actors, Lavie, as a Mizrahi feminist activist, a scholar, and a welfare-dependent single mother herself, uses the protest as a case study through which matters of poverty and ruthless neoliberal economy, Israeli intra-Jewish racism, Jewish Ashkenazi domination, nationalism...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 71–101.
Published: 01 November 2006
... to be complex and ramifi ed.
Gender relations, as we saw, constitute a good example, albeit not exclu-
sively. For example, men in general will subject Mizrahi and Ashkenazi
women to mechanisms of suppression and exclusion, while Ashkenazi
men and women will subject Mizrahi men and women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 41–61.
Published: 01 March 2020
.... These stakes are the cultivation of racial divides and animus. Baldwin’s remarks are evocative of, as Ella Shohat, Orit Bashkin, Bryan Roby, and Aziza Khazzoom have shown, the reality that, in immigrating to Israel, Mizrahi Jews came to live in a state founded primarily by Ashkenazi Zionists who were...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 232–234.
Published: 01 July 2019
... for promoting a singular feminism based on Ashkenazi experience (chaps. 3 and 4). Drawing on multicultural feminist approaches, Shohat worked to “contextualize Mizrahi feminism within racial and national Third World Struggles” rather than limit their political perspectives to an exceptionalized Palestinian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 81–107.
Published: 01 November 2013
...
Rabbi, Ovadia Yosef, and the influential Ashkenazi Rabbi Shakh. In
its 1984 national election campaign, Shas’s mobilization efforts fo-
cused on Haredi Mizrahi Jews who were discriminated against in
ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi educational, religious, and political in-
stitutions (Tessler 2003, 77 – 8...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 3–23.
Published: 01 March 2015
... circumcision rites. 5 Certainly rabbis were no feminists, although Sephardic rabbis had had the reputation of being more rationalist and open to outside influences than their eastern European counterparts. Whether Sephardic or Ashkenazi, traditional rabbinic Judaism made clear Jewish women’s lesser...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 363–381.
Published: 01 November 2016
... on the Beaufort in the Lebanon war” (Lurie 1992 , 7). Inspired by Harnik, other soldiers’ mothers—mostly middle-class Ashkenazi women—began to reject their allotted role in the gendered national order and to participate in various domains of public discourse on military policy. The most acclaimed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 143–154.
Published: 01 November 2012
... forward a particular image
of the country, which reinforces and silences inequalities, brushing away
racial, religious, and class conflicts, making the others of the European
Zionist face disappear entirely.15 Tellingly, most—although not all—of
the Israelis in the love posters are of Ashkenazi...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 72–76.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., in relation to the Palestinian body where the Israeli White Ashkenazi Jew must be sexually and juridically segregated from the abject Palestinian body (115). In contrast to the “muscular” body of the New Jew, “the occupation has created intense forms of disability” through direct violence on Palestinians...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 377–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and antioccupation initiatives and collaboration. It lays out the nuanced texture of Israeli feminist peace activism, describing the internal criticisms raised by Mizrahi and Palestinian-Israelis against the Ashkenazi elitism in the women’s peace movement, and the transformations in this movement since the 1990s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 246–251.
Published: 01 July 2018
... (Whitten 2017 ), her status as a former Israeli soldier (Barrows-Friedman 2017 ; Dabashi 2017 ), and whether, as an Ashkenazi Jew, she is white or a person of color (Heckle 2017 ). In my Jordanian sociopolitical and cultural landscape, Gadot was widely seen as first and foremost an Israeli soldier...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 24–47.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... Mizrahim were pressured to change names, languages, accents, musical tastes, religious rituals, food, and clothing (Meir-Glitzenstein 2015 ; Shenhav 2006 ). 4 State initiatives moved births to hospitals and sent soldiers—young, female, and Ashkenazi—to teach Mizrahi mothers child rearing, and informal...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 306–324.
Published: 01 November 2015
... bring status and educational differences to the foreground. I am a middle-class Jewish Ashkenazi Israeli woman researcher. I live with a partner and am a mother. Thus I am a privileged woman in Israeli society. Interviewing Palestinian women who are subordinated in Israel further complicates discussion...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 78–101.
Published: 01 July 2012
... opportunities for Arab and Miz-
rahi (Oriental) Jewish women, since the service sector employed mainly
the Ashkenazi (Jewish, of European, Yiddish-speaking origin) women
(Bernstein 1986, 403).
The 1970s also witnessed an increased number of Arab graduates,
including women, from Israeli universities...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 45–74.
Published: 01 November 2007
... the sovereign state of
Israel. Lastly, the republican discourse is used to legitimize different
positions occupied by the major Jewish groups, Ashkenazi and Mizrahi,
men and women, with the innermost group enjoying not only liberal
and ethno-nationalist rights, but also the privileges of republican citi...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2022
... was, among other things, a class and ethnic project. It became a powerful actor in shaping the Israeli middle class, which was Jewish, urban, Ashkenazi (i.e., of European descent), and mostly born in Palestine. Its graduates became high officials and bureaucrats of the new state institutions. Hence...
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