Warriors, witches, whores : women in Israeli cinema /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Women on the Front Lines: Reconceptualizing War, Militarism, the Conflict, and the Female Soldier
- 1. A Woman's War: The Gulf War and the Israeli Chick Flick
- 2. Women in Conflict: The Impact of Militarism and Male Hegemony on Women's Lives
- 3. Women Waving Guns: Does Feminism Meet the IDF on the Israeli Screen?
- Part 2. Women in the Home Guard: Religion, Ethnicity, and Sexuality
- 4 ."A Woman of Worth": Who Sees the Religious Woman?
- 5. Witches and Wailers: Mizrahi Women's Power
- 6. Hot and Fertile: Sex, Sexuality, and Prostitution
- Part 3. Feminism, Postfeminism, and New Directions in Israeli Feminist Filmmaking
- 7. A Question of Rape: Feminism, Postfeminism, and Issues of Representation
- 8. A Move to the Center: Foreign Workers, Arab Women, and the Shift from the Margins
- Afterword: The Effects of Feminist Activism on the Changing Cinematic Landscape.
