Writing Culture' Under the Gaze of My Country
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meira Wei, Meira Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-91 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14661380122230830 |
| OpenAlex | W1991259039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
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
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2011 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |