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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 264–266.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Adi Kuntsman Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture . Lavie Smadar . New York : Berghahn , 2014 . 216 pages. isbn 9781782382225 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Smadar Lavie’s Wrapped...
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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 (2006) 2 (3): 71–101.
Published: 01 November 2006
... discrimination (against Mizrahim in general and against Mizrahi girls in particular) presents a special case of exclusionary social practices in the context of the Middle East. It owes its motivating and legitimizing force to social constructions exhibiting a unique reproduction of the dichotomy between...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 232–234.
Published: 01 July 2019
... these events as spatially and politically interconnected. Shohat critically challenges studies of the Middle East that spatialize the Palestinian question as “outside” Israel and the Mizrahi question as “inside” Israel through the deliberate crossing of various disciplinary, geographic, and historical borders...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 November 2017
... . “ In Defense of Al-Aqsa: The Islamic Movement inside Israel and the Battle for Jerusalem .” Middle East Journal 66 , no. 1 : 31 – 52 . Lavie Smadar . 2014 . Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture . New York : Berghahn . Madmoni-Gerber Shoshana...
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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 (2017) 13 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 March 2017
... confronted with the types of activism available to women in each movement (e.g., martyrdom). Ben Shitrit’s own identity as a Mizrahi Jew adds an interesting facet to the research, positively and negatively. While she gained unprecedented access to women activists in the settler movement and Shas, as well...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 460.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Erratum for Adi Kuntsman, review of Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture , by Smadar Lavie, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 12, no. 2 (2016): 264–66 . On page...
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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 (2015) 11 (1): 3–23.
Published: 01 March 2015
... . La mémoire de l’autre . Paris : Stock . Sezgin Paméla Dorn . 2005 . “ Jewish Women in the Ottoman Empire .” In Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry: From the Golden Age of Spain to Modern Times , edited by Zohar Zion , 216 – 37 . New York : New York University Press . Shohat Ella...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 24–47.
Published: 01 March 2019
... immigrant men for their ability to self-present as Western according to local meanings, and showed that when Mizrahi men had both Western cultural capital and the physical opportunity to perform it to gatekeepers, they avoided discrimination. Thus for Jews, performance of identity in individual...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 66–68.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and public services faced by Palestinians as a whole. She also shows how other feminist groups, such as Mizrahi groups or Jewish groups, tend not to be as community oriented, because they do not face the same level of discrimination as Palestinians. Connected to the role of Palestinians in such programs...
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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 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 March 2018
... autoethnography of Mizrahi single mothers in Israel demonstrates how racial and sexual stereotypes about Mizrahi women contribute to their exclusion from nationalist, maternalist imaginaries. Despite the significant differences in country context, I find this work extremely useful in thinking through what Lavie...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with their male spouses, one of whom was also a medical-school graduate. In two other cases, we interviewed a couple (both graduates) separately. There were fourteen interviewees of European Jewish origin, one Mizrahi Jew, four African guest students, and five Palestinian citizens of Israel. Three were born...
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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...
