Wrapped in the flag of Israel : Mizrahi single mothers and bureaucratic torture / Smadar Lavie ; with a new afterword by the author. [electronic resource]
Material type:
TextSeries: Expanding frontiersPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2018Edition: Revised editionDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type: - 9781496207500 (e-book)
- Single mothers -- Israel -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Single mothers -- Israel -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
- Mizrahim -- Israel -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Mizrahim -- Israel -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
- Feminists -- Political activity -- Israel
- Social movements -- Israel
- Israel -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- 306.87432095694 23
- HQ759.915 .L38 2018
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| Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
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.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.