Tamar Rapoport
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 114079 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tamar Rapoport |
| NOMBRES | Tamar |
| APELLIDO | Rapoport |
| FIRMA | RAPOPORT T |
| AFILIACIONES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 269 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Each Female Fan Has Her Own Story
This article advocates autoethnography as a critical feminist methodology for using personal testimony to investigate women’s experience and performance of fandom The article’s centerpiece is an analysis of the personal testimonies of three women—researcher-fans of different ages—of a fan-owned club Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem. In addition to revealing women’s gendered-based experiences and the different ways in which women acquire and perform fando…
Excellence or Equality in the Name of God? The Case of Ultra-Orthodox Enclave Education in Israel
One People, One Blood
Converting to belong
The paper examines religious conversion to Judaism among young ‘Russian’ immigrant girls in Israel. Looking into the process of conversion in religious boarding schools for girls only (Ulpana) and in the broader context of the Israeli nation‐state, we examine the strategies the educators contrive in inculcating religiosity among the girls, how they legitimise and facilitate their self‐transformation, and mobilise them to desire a religious subjec…
Cultural citizenship and performing homecoming
The paper explores the mutual relation between cultural citizenship and national homecoming. Using the case study of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Israel, it refines the theoretical debate over cultural citizenship by showing how homecoming migration shapes the homecomers' bargaining power over the local cultural tenets. In particular, the research examines the ways in which the 'Russian' immigrants negotiate the national ethos of homecoming that …
The Ethnic Script in Action
Working from dynamic, strategic, and collective qualities of activity to discussion of the concept of "Script" in sociological and anthropological literature, this article further develops the idea of the "ethnic script." We consider the ethnic script to be an interpretative framework, tightly connected to group identity and to designing actions of ethnic group members with respect to sociocultural institutions and other social groups within a gi…
Reading the Power of Spaces
Our ethnographic study of Palestinian Israeli women at the Hebrew University explores how these women construct space into place as they construct themselves. Tracing the women's experiences in the dormitories, Jerusalem, and Israel/Palestine, we show how the women acquire knowledge of the gendered and national organization of space and develop practices for using this knowledge to negotiate power relations. Using an analytical understanding of s…
Reproducing Nation, Redesigning Positioning
This paper discusses the reproduction of hegemony and social hierarchy through education. It brings together two case studies of marginal groups at a university—Russian Jewish immigrants and Palestinian Israeli women—who make sense of their position in social hierarchies and power relations through constant interpretative work on the various dimensions of university knowledge. The article reveals how marginal actors' interpretations of knowledge …
Les Femmes en noir
Le mouvement de protestation israélien, les Femmes en noir, est étudié en se centrant sur le mode de protestation du mouvement, utilisé comme un prisme au travers duquel est analysée la manière dont la structure, les contenus et les objectifs de la manifestation contestent l’ordre sociopolitique et celui du genre. L’article analyse la manifestation silencieuse des Femmes en noir à Jérusalem et la caractérise, suivant en cela Handelman (1990), com…
Body, Gender, and Knowledge in Protest Movements
The authors suggest that social movements research should recognize more the potential of the protesting body as an agent of social and political change. This contention is based on studying the relations among the body, gender, and knowledge in social protest by comparing two Israeli-Jewish leftist protest movements, a woman-only movement (Women in Black) and a mixed-gender one (The 21st Year), which protested against the Israeli Occupation in t…
Juggling Models of Masculinity
The present study addresses the question 'What is masculinity?' by exploring how male immigrants interpret local masculinity and the models of masculinity they portray while situating themselves in the male hierarchy of the new society. The study is based on 'immigration stories' elicited by in-depth interviews conducted with 43 university students who immigrated to Israel at the beginning of the 1990s from the former Soviet Union. The analysis o…
Intelligentsia' as an Ethnic Habitus
This study employs Bourdieu's concept of 'habitus' as an analytical tool to reveal how the notion of 'intelligentsia' is inculcated, transposed and generative during socialisation, and becomes a constitutive force in Russian Jews' personal and collective identity. This analysis is based on the reading of life histories narrated by 43 Russian Jewish university students who have been living in Israel since the 1990s. The findings reveal four distin…
Seeking a Place to Rest
This study explores person-place relations in the context of the crisscross movement of Russian-Jewish immigrants (university students) who came to Israel in the early 1990s and who subsequently returned to their homeland on a visit. Readings of the immigrants' "visiting tales" uncovered a repertoire of five identity practices, each of which constitutes a different analytical type of person-place relation. Our analysis attests to the existence of…
Recollection and Relocation in Immigration
This study conceptualizes the relationship between recollection of the past and relocation in the context of immigration. Combining symbolic interactionist and narrative paradigms, it explores how immigrants'representations of past experiences inform their identity construction and the process of entering the host society. Our interpretive analysis of personal narratives related spontaneously by eighty-nine Russian-Jewish immigrants in Israel and…
Elaborating Ethnonational Awareness via Academic Literacy
Building on a poststructuralist theory of literacy, we delve into the "black box" of Palestinian Israeli women's encounters with academic knowledge. Through interviews and observations, we disclose practices the women used to unearth the construction of dominant Jewish Israeli knowledge and to reconstruct gender in the Palestinian Israeli ethnonational discourse. Our study takes a new angle on the New Literacy Studies by looking at unprogrammed l…
Reflections on Strangeness in Context
Homecoming, Immigration, and the National Ethos
For immigrants entering a society characterized by a strong national ethos of homecoming, the interpretation of that ethos is essential to their making sense of their new lives and reconstructing their identity. Our case study explores how immigrants interpret the Israeli national ethos while struggling over their position in the old-new homeland. Analyzing personal narratives of Russian-Jewish university students in Israeli society, we discuss h…
Visit, Separation, and Deconstructing Nostalgia
The article theorizes the disruptive nature of immigrants' visit to the native home in terms of temporality and space. Such a disruption demands that immigrants reevaluate their relationships to the old home. Probing visiting tales elicited from immigration stories, the authors discuss how separation from the old home is effectuated during visits to the native home through the simultaneous and contrary processes of (1) linking up with the familia…
The Origins of Postmodern Youth
The Experience of Religious Fortification
While in normative Judaism the category of female adolescence was virtually nonexistent, religious Zionist educational authorities in modern Israel have had to produce their own model of female adolescence and women's socialisation. Probing the accounts of 37 17 year-old religious Zionist female adolescents educated in a single-sex boarding school, we show that the young women experience adolescence as an intense period of religious fortification…
Frauen in Schwarz
Ritual impurity and religious discourse on women and nationality
Cultures of womanhood in Israel
Women in Black
The Israeli protest movement 'Women in Black' is studied by focusing on the movement's mode of protest, which is used as a prism through which to analyse the manner in which the structure, contents and goals of protest challenge the socio-political and gender orders. The article analyses the protest vigil of 'Women in Black' in Jerusalem, and characterizes it, following Handelman (1990), as a minimalist public event. After examining and analysing…
Girls' Experiences of Artistic Ambition
This article explores the gendered artistic ambition of adolescent girls as it is constructed in two divergent Israeli communities: religious Zionist and kibbutz. Listening to the voices of two young women who relate their experiences, hopes, desires, and conflicts, the authors deduce how each reproduces, struggles with, and resists conceptions of gender, sexuality, and artistic performance that prevail in her community. Although the girls share …
Women in Black
The Israeli protest movement 'Women in Black' is studied by focusing on the movement's mode of protest, which is used as a prism through which to analyse the manner in which the structure, contents and goals of protest challenge the socio-political and gender orders. The article analyses the protest vigil of 'Women in Black' in Jerusalem, and characterizes it, following Handelman (1990), as a minimalist public event. After examining and analysing…
Homecoming, Immigration, and the National Ethos
For immigrants entering a society characterized by a strong national ethos of homecoming, the interpretation of that ethos is essential to their making sense of their new lives and reconstructing their identity. Our case study explores how immigrants interpret the Israeli national ethos while struggling over their position in the old-new homeland. Analyzing personal narratives of Russian-Jewish university students in Israeli society, we discuss h…
Intelligentsia' as an Ethnic Habitus
This study employs Bourdieu's concept of 'habitus' as an analytical tool to reveal how the notion of 'intelligentsia' is inculcated, transposed and generative during socialisation, and becomes a constitutive force in Russian Jews' personal and collective identity. This analysis is based on the reading of life histories narrated by 43 Russian Jewish university students who have been living in Israel since the 1990s. The findings reveal four distin…
The Ethnic Script in Action
Working from dynamic, strategic, and collective qualities of activity to discussion of the concept of "Script" in sociological and anthropological literature, this article further develops the idea of the "ethnic script." We consider the ethnic script to be an interpretative framework, tightly connected to group identity and to designing actions of ethnic group members with respect to sociocultural institutions and other social groups within a gi…
Juggling Models of Masculinity
The present study addresses the question 'What is masculinity?' by exploring how male immigrants interpret local masculinity and the models of masculinity they portray while situating themselves in the male hierarchy of the new society. The study is based on 'immigration stories' elicited by in-depth interviews conducted with 43 university students who immigrated to Israel at the beginning of the 1990s from the former Soviet Union. The analysis o…
Body, Gender, and Knowledge in Protest Movements
The authors suggest that social movements research should recognize more the potential of the protesting body as an agent of social and political change. This contention is based on studying the relations among the body, gender, and knowledge in social protest by comparing two Israeli-Jewish leftist protest movements, a woman-only movement (Women in Black) and a mixed-gender one (The 21st Year), which protested against the Israeli Occupation in t…
Excellence or Equality in the Name of God? The Case of Ultra-Orthodox Enclave Education in Israel
Cultural citizenship and performing homecoming
The paper explores the mutual relation between cultural citizenship and national homecoming. Using the case study of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Israel, it refines the theoretical debate over cultural citizenship by showing how homecoming migration shapes the homecomers' bargaining power over the local cultural tenets. In particular, the research examines the ways in which the 'Russian' immigrants negotiate the national ethos of homecoming that …
Visit, Separation, and Deconstructing Nostalgia
The article theorizes the disruptive nature of immigrants' visit to the native home in terms of temporality and space. Such a disruption demands that immigrants reevaluate their relationships to the old home. Probing visiting tales elicited from immigration stories, the authors discuss how separation from the old home is effectuated during visits to the native home through the simultaneous and contrary processes of (1) linking up with the familia…
Reading the Power of Spaces
Our ethnographic study of Palestinian Israeli women at the Hebrew University explores how these women construct space into place as they construct themselves. Tracing the women's experiences in the dormitories, Jerusalem, and Israel/Palestine, we show how the women acquire knowledge of the gendered and national organization of space and develop practices for using this knowledge to negotiate power relations. Using an analytical understanding of s…
Female subordination in the Arab-Israeli community
Converting to belong
The paper examines religious conversion to Judaism among young ‘Russian’ immigrant girls in Israel. Looking into the process of conversion in religious boarding schools for girls only (Ulpana) and in the broader context of the Israeli nation‐state, we examine the strategies the educators contrive in inculcating religiosity among the girls, how they legitimise and facilitate their self‐transformation, and mobilise them to desire a religious subjec…
Ritual impurity and religious discourse on women and nationality
Recollection and Relocation in Immigration
This study conceptualizes the relationship between recollection of the past and relocation in the context of immigration. Combining symbolic interactionist and narrative paradigms, it explores how immigrants'representations of past experiences inform their identity construction and the process of entering the host society. Our interpretive analysis of personal narratives related spontaneously by eighty-nine Russian-Jewish immigrants in Israel and…
Cultures of womanhood in Israel
Religious Socialization and Female Subjectivity
Les AA. examinent le lien entre sentiment religieux, sexe et subjectivite dans un cadre educatif religieux sioniste en Israel a partir d'une enquete menee dans un etablissement d'enseignement superieur. Ce cadre educatif doit faire face au defi d'etre capable de reproduire les conceptions juives traditionnelles concernant la femme dans le cadre d'une societe moderne laique. Ils montrent comment les etudiantes traduisent dans leurs experiences quo…
Elaborating Ethnonational Awareness via Academic Literacy
Building on a poststructuralist theory of literacy, we delve into the "black box" of Palestinian Israeli women's encounters with academic knowledge. Through interviews and observations, we disclose practices the women used to unearth the construction of dominant Jewish Israeli knowledge and to reconstruct gender in the Palestinian Israeli ethnonational discourse. Our study takes a new angle on the New Literacy Studies by looking at unprogrammed l…
Tutorial relations — The dynamics of social contract and personal trust
Youth's Conception of Life-Cycle Stages
Conceptions held by contemporary adolescents about the four major life stages were examined among a sample of 347 Israeli adolescents. Subjects were asked to characterize in one sentence the terms "adult," "youth, " "child, " and "old person." A content analysis of the data, based on structural categories developed by the authors (biological aspects, roles, and personal resources), showed that youth conceive of all the stages predominantly in ter…
Seeking a Place to Rest
This study explores person-place relations in the context of the crisscross movement of Russian-Jewish immigrants (university students) who came to Israel in the early 1990s and who subsequently returned to their homeland on a visit. Readings of the immigrants' "visiting tales" uncovered a repertoire of five identity practices, each of which constitutes a different analytical type of person-place relation. Our analysis attests to the existence of…
Reflections on Strangeness in Context
Gender-differential patterns of adolescent socialization in three arenas
Experimentation and Control
The paper introduces a conceptual framework, backed by empirical evidence, in which experimentation and control are perceived as independent but coexisting generic dimensions within each of the three major socialization agencies during adolescence: the home, the school, and the informal youth association. The socialization experiences in each agency, in terms of each dimension, was assessed via a closed questionnaire distributed among 1433 Israel…
Contribution to the Collective by Religious‐Zionist Adolescent Girls
The act of contribution to the collective raises a major dilemma in contemporary religious Zionism in regard to girls and women: how to maintain their traditional restriction to the domestic sphere while allowing participation in national tasks that demand their presence in the male‐dominated public sphere. From in‐depth interviews conducted with 37 seventeen‐year‐old religious girls studying in a unisex residential boarding high school, we uncov…
Socialization Patterns in the Family, the School, and the Youth Movement
Youth's Conception of Life-Cycle Stages
Conceptions held by contemporary adolescents about the four major life stages were examined among a sample of 347 Israeli adolescents. Subjects were asked to characterize in one sentence the terms "adult," "youth, " "child, " and "old person." A content analysis of the data, based on structural categories developed by the authors (biological aspects, roles, and personal resources), showed that youth conceive of all the stages predominantly in ter…
Patterns of Transition to Adulthood
Patterns of transition to adulthood are conceptualised in terms of three dimensions encompassing contradictory principles: the social definition of youth (consistent/inconsistent), the structure of social relations (hierarchical/symmetrical), and behavioural orientations (conformity/deviation). We apply this conceptualisation to a comparative analysis of transition to adulthood in Israel during two distinct historical periods: the 1950s (`transit…
Socialization Patterns in the Family, the School, and the Youth Movement
Informal Socialization Agencies and Role Development
The article hypothesizes that informal youth organizations influence processes of transition to adulthood by facilitating role development, that is, the conversion of child-oriented roles into adult-oriented ones. In an attempt to test the hypothesis, two variables were specified. Informality was defined in terms of seven organizational components: moratorium, symmetry, dualism, multiplexity, expressive instrumentalism, voluntarism, and pragmatic…
Female subordination in the Arab-Israeli community
Experimentation and Control
The paper introduces a conceptual framework, backed by empirical evidence, in which experimentation and control are perceived as independent but coexisting generic dimensions within each of the three major socialization agencies during adolescence: the home, the school, and the informal youth association. The socialization experiences in each agency, in terms of each dimension, was assessed via a closed questionnaire distributed among 1433 Israel…
Tutorial relations — The dynamics of social contract and personal trust
Gender-differential patterns of adolescent socialization in three arenas
Two Patterns of Girlhood
The home, school and peer setting play a crucial role in processing socio-cultural conceptions of female sexuality (the social meanings attributed to the girl's sexual and reproductive capacity). This process is not necessarily consistent across institutions of socialisation; yet, notwithstanding growing scholarly interest in girlhood, little is known about institutional variations in sexuality-laden socialisation practices and experiences. The p…
Contribution to the Collective by Religious‐Zionist Adolescent Girls
The act of contribution to the collective raises a major dilemma in contemporary religious Zionism in regard to girls and women: how to maintain their traditional restriction to the domestic sphere while allowing participation in national tasks that demand their presence in the male‐dominated public sphere. From in‐depth interviews conducted with 37 seventeen‐year‐old religious girls studying in a unisex residential boarding high school, we uncov…
Religious Socialization and Female Subjectivity
Les AA. examinent le lien entre sentiment religieux, sexe et subjectivite dans un cadre educatif religieux sioniste en Israel a partir d'une enquete menee dans un etablissement d'enseignement superieur. Ce cadre educatif doit faire face au defi d'etre capable de reproduire les conceptions juives traditionnelles concernant la femme dans le cadre d'une societe moderne laique. Ils montrent comment les etudiantes traduisent dans leurs experiences quo…
Girls' Experiences of Artistic Ambition
This article explores the gendered artistic ambition of adolescent girls as it is constructed in two divergent Israeli communities: religious Zionist and kibbutz. Listening to the voices of two young women who relate their experiences, hopes, desires, and conflicts, the authors deduce how each reproduces, struggles with, and resists conceptions of gender, sexuality, and artistic performance that prevail in her community. Although the girls share …
Ritual impurity and religious discourse on women and nationality
Cultures of womanhood in Israel
Women in Black
The Israeli protest movement 'Women in Black' is studied by focusing on the movement's mode of protest, which is used as a prism through which to analyse the manner in which the structure, contents and goals of protest challenge the socio-political and gender orders. The article analyses the protest vigil of 'Women in Black' in Jerusalem, and characterizes it, following Handelman (1990), as a minimalist public event. After examining and analysing…
The Experience of Religious Fortification
While in normative Judaism the category of female adolescence was virtually nonexistent, religious Zionist educational authorities in modern Israel have had to produce their own model of female adolescence and women's socialisation. Probing the accounts of 37 17 year-old religious Zionist female adolescents educated in a single-sex boarding school, we show that the young women experience adolescence as an intense period of religious fortification…
Frauen in Schwarz
The Origins of Postmodern Youth
Visit, Separation, and Deconstructing Nostalgia
The article theorizes the disruptive nature of immigrants' visit to the native home in terms of temporality and space. Such a disruption demands that immigrants reevaluate their relationships to the old home. Probing visiting tales elicited from immigration stories, the authors discuss how separation from the old home is effectuated during visits to the native home through the simultaneous and contrary processes of (1) linking up with the familia…
Reflections on Strangeness in Context
Homecoming, Immigration, and the National Ethos
For immigrants entering a society characterized by a strong national ethos of homecoming, the interpretation of that ethos is essential to their making sense of their new lives and reconstructing their identity. Our case study explores how immigrants interpret the Israeli national ethos while struggling over their position in the old-new homeland. Analyzing personal narratives of Russian-Jewish university students in Israeli society, we discuss h…
Intelligentsia' as an Ethnic Habitus
This study employs Bourdieu's concept of 'habitus' as an analytical tool to reveal how the notion of 'intelligentsia' is inculcated, transposed and generative during socialisation, and becomes a constitutive force in Russian Jews' personal and collective identity. This analysis is based on the reading of life histories narrated by 43 Russian Jewish university students who have been living in Israel since the 1990s. The findings reveal four distin…
Seeking a Place to Rest
This study explores person-place relations in the context of the crisscross movement of Russian-Jewish immigrants (university students) who came to Israel in the early 1990s and who subsequently returned to their homeland on a visit. Readings of the immigrants' "visiting tales" uncovered a repertoire of five identity practices, each of which constitutes a different analytical type of person-place relation. Our analysis attests to the existence of…
Recollection and Relocation in Immigration
This study conceptualizes the relationship between recollection of the past and relocation in the context of immigration. Combining symbolic interactionist and narrative paradigms, it explores how immigrants'representations of past experiences inform their identity construction and the process of entering the host society. Our interpretive analysis of personal narratives related spontaneously by eighty-nine Russian-Jewish immigrants in Israel and…
Elaborating Ethnonational Awareness via Academic Literacy
Building on a poststructuralist theory of literacy, we delve into the "black box" of Palestinian Israeli women's encounters with academic knowledge. Through interviews and observations, we disclose practices the women used to unearth the construction of dominant Jewish Israeli knowledge and to reconstruct gender in the Palestinian Israeli ethnonational discourse. Our study takes a new angle on the New Literacy Studies by looking at unprogrammed l…
Sociology (32 obras) · Political science (26 obras) · Gender Studies (25 obras) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (23 obras) · Law (20 obras) · History (14 obras) · Psychology (13 obras) · Gender Studies (12 obras) · Judaism (12 obras) · Law (11 obras)