Wrapped in the flag of Israel : Mizrahi single mothers and bureaucratic torture /
Lavie, Smadar,
Wrapped in the flag of Israel : Mizrahi single mothers and bureaucratic torture / [electronic resource] Smadar Lavie ; with a new afterword by the author. - Revised edition. - 1 online resource (336 pages). - Expanding frontiers : interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality . - Expanding frontiers. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. Left is right, right is left : Zionism and Israel's single mothers -- Chapter 2. Protesting and belonging : when the agency of identity politics becomes impossible -- Chapter 3. Take 1: The gende race essence of bureaucratic torture -- Chapter 4. Take 2: Ideology, welfare, and single mothers -- Chapter 5. Take 3: Diary of a welfare mother -- Chapter 6. The price of national security.
Weaving together memoir, auto-ethnography, political analysis, and cultural critique, Lavie equates bureaucratic entanglements with pain--and, arguably, torture--to examine the conundrum of loving and staying loyal to a state that repeatedly inflicts pain on its non-European Jewish women citizens.
9781496207500 (e-book)
Single mothers--Social conditions--Israel--21st century.
Single mothers--Economic conditions--Israel--21st century.
Mizrahim--Social conditions--Israel--21st century.
Mizrahim--Economic conditions--Israel--21st century.
Feminists--Political activity--Israel.
Social movements--Israel.
Israel--Social conditions--21st century.
Electronic books.
HQ759.915 / .L38 2018
306.87432095694
Wrapped in the flag of Israel : Mizrahi single mothers and bureaucratic torture / [electronic resource] Smadar Lavie ; with a new afterword by the author. - Revised edition. - 1 online resource (336 pages). - Expanding frontiers : interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality . - Expanding frontiers. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. Left is right, right is left : Zionism and Israel's single mothers -- Chapter 2. Protesting and belonging : when the agency of identity politics becomes impossible -- Chapter 3. Take 1: The gende race essence of bureaucratic torture -- Chapter 4. Take 2: Ideology, welfare, and single mothers -- Chapter 5. Take 3: Diary of a welfare mother -- Chapter 6. The price of national security.
Weaving together memoir, auto-ethnography, political analysis, and cultural critique, Lavie equates bureaucratic entanglements with pain--and, arguably, torture--to examine the conundrum of loving and staying loyal to a state that repeatedly inflicts pain on its non-European Jewish women citizens.
9781496207500 (e-book)
Single mothers--Social conditions--Israel--21st century.
Single mothers--Economic conditions--Israel--21st century.
Mizrahim--Social conditions--Israel--21st century.
Mizrahim--Economic conditions--Israel--21st century.
Feminists--Political activity--Israel.
Social movements--Israel.
Israel--Social conditions--21st century.
Electronic books.
HQ759.915 / .L38 2018
306.87432095694