Zion of Their Own Hebrew Women’s Nationalist Writing.

Hebrew Literature;Jewish Women;Zionism;Israeli-Palestinian Conflict;Mizrahim;Israeli Feminism;Judaic Studies;Women"s and Gender Studies;Humanities;Comparative Literature

Zakai, OrianTsoffar, Ruth ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Hebrew Literature;    Jewish Women;    Zionism;    Israeli-Palestinian Conflict;    Mizrahim;    Israeli Feminism;    Judaic Studies;    Women";    s and Gender Studies;    Humanities;    Comparative Literature;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

This dissertation is a critical exploration of the makings, ethics and politics of Zionist women’s Zionism. While the large and diverse body of scholarship on gender and the Zionist project posit women among the marginalized Others of the masculine Zionist subject, I investigate the Zionist imaginary forged in the writings of Zionist women who never accepted the assumption that Zionism is, in essence, a masculine project, and who did, in writing, claim Zionism their own, remolding it in response to women’s complicated stance at the junction of Judaism, Zionism and modernity. Reading prose by Ḥemda Ben-Yehuda, Sara Azaryahu, Rivka Alper, Neḥama Poḥatchevsky, and Dvora Baron, I trace the ways women writers of the first half of the 20th century feminize the grand narratives of Zionism. These women authors, I argue, transpose Zionism into the realm of ;;women’s issues,” and weave its tenets with women’s gendered traumas, their projects of liberation and equality, and their fraught relations with work, writing and love. This interrogation of the makings of women’s nationalism enables me to provide a critique of the ethics and politics embedded in women’s Zionist visions. Placing the textual production of Zionist Ashkenazi women within the context of global relations of power, I glean women’s particular investments in the Zionist racial, ethnic and national hierarchies, and highlight the ways in which the constitution of the Zionist feminine subject is implicated in the demarcation of the non-Western Other. Zionist women’s Zionism, I propose, is a position fraught by the one-sided love for the nation, colonial anxieties and desires, and restless Sisyphean efforts of re-conceptualization and re-narration.