The military and militarism in Israeli society
edited by Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari
- Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1999.
- vi, 323 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- SUNY series in Israeli studies .
1. Introduction: Cultural Constructions of War and the Military in Israel Eyal Ben-Ari and Edna Lomsky-Feder. Part I. Setting the Context 2. Wars as Catalysts of Political and Cultural Change Myron J. Aronoff. Part II. Cultural Sites 3. The Masada Mythical Narrative and the Israeli Army Nachman Ben-Yehuda. 4. The Independence Day Military Parade: A Political History of a Patriotic Ritual Maoz Azaryahu. 5. War, Heroism, and Public Representations: The Case of a Museum of "Coexistence" in Jerusalem Efrat Ben Ze'ev and Eyal Ben-Ari. Part III. The Constructions of Life-Worlds. 6. Army and War: Collective Narratives of Early Childhood in Contemporary Israel. Mirta Furman. 7. Masks and Soldiering: The Israeli Army and the Palestinian Uprising Eyal Ben-Ari. 8. Militarism and the Construction of the Life-World of Israeli Males: The Case of the Reserves System Sara Helman. Part IV. Gender, Hegemony, and Resistanc. 9. Gender, Body, and the National Subject: Israeli Women's Poetry in the War if Independence Hannan Hever. 10. Filming National Identity: War and Woman in Israeli Cinema Anat Zanger. 11. Engendering the Gulf War: Israeli Nurses and the Discourse of Soldiering Meira Z. Weiss. 12. Epilogue Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari.
Investigates the cultural and social constructions of issues related to war, the armed forces, and national security in Israel.