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Writing Culture' Under the Gaze of My Country

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ID2402151
AuthorsMeira Wei, Meira Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume2
Issue1
Pages77-91
Publication date2001-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14661380122230830
OpenAlexW1991259039
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited6

An experiment in `writing culture' through biographical positioning, this article identifies the central symbol of Israeli military and masculine identity as `the chosen body' and traces through some of the practices that support and exemplify it. Within and against this masculinization and militarization of Israeli society, I explore my own and other women's experiences as citizen, daughter, mother and writer, to argue for resistance of and in the female body which finds a non-discursive expression in `somatic dissidence

Aesthetics · Art · Daughter · Expression (computer science · Gaze · Identity (music · Masculinity · Media studies · Militarization · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Symbol (formal · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society · Psychology

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    Open Access•Tyler Wall•Cultural Dynamics•2011

  • The Masada myth

    Nachman Ben-Yehuda•The Masada myth•1995

  • Fields of play

    Laurel Richardson•Fields of play•1997

  • The Chosen Body

    Meira Weiss, Martin Weiss•The Chosen Body•2002

  • Gender Trouble

    Judith Butler•Gender Trouble•2011

  • War bodies, hedonist bodies

    Open Access•Meira Wei, Meira Weiss•American Ethnologist•1997

  • Engendering the Gulf War

    Open Access•Meira Wei, Meira Weiss•Journal of Contemporary Ethnography•1998

Unique citing works2
Citations per year0,09
Citation span2003 - 2011 (9)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 2
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