Wrapped in the flag of Israel : Mizrahi single mothers and bureaucratic torture / Smadar Lavie ; with a new afterword by the author.
By: Lavie, Smadar [author.].
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BookSeries: Expanding frontiers: Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2018Edition: Revised edition.Description: 1 online resource (336 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781496207500 (e-book).Subject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.87432095694 Online resources: Click to View | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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