Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women On Israel's Periphery (raphael Patai Series In Jewish Folklore And Anthropology)

Synopsis

Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women On Israel's Periphery Offers A Rich Depiction Of Contemporary Life In One Marginalized Development Town In The Israeli Negev. Placing The Stories Of Five Women At The Center, Author Pnina Motzafi-haller Depicts A Range Of Creative Strategies Used By Each Woman To Make A Meaningful Life Within A Reality Of Multiple Exclusions. These Limitations, Motzafi-haller Argues, Create A Concrete Box, Which, Unlike The Glass Ceiling Of The Liberal Feminist Discourse, Is Multi-dimensional And Harder To Break Free From [...] Concrete Boxes Offers Sustained Reflection About Israeli Reality Rarely Documented In Scholarly Work And A Thought-provoking Theoretical Exploration Of The Ways In Which Individual Agency Encounters Social Restrictions And How Social Marginality Is Reproduced And Challenged At The Same Time-- Pnina Motzafi-haller, With A Foreword By Virginia R. Dominguez. This Edition Is A Translation From The Original Hebrew Publication, In The Cement Boxes (magnes Press, 2012), Published By Arrangement With The Hebrew University Magnes Press Ltd., Jerusalem--title Page Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 319-325) And Index.