Lihi Ben Shitrit
Biographic Data
| ID | 1179503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lihi Ben Shitrit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lihi Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Shitrit |
| SIGNATURE | BEN SHITRIT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7868-9889 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Feminism(s) and authoritarianism(s) in the Middle East and North Africa
Sovereignty in Hebrew and the Decline of Democracy
Since assuming office in December 2022, Israel's government has worked to weaken the state's democratic infrastructure. While this appears to break from a long-standing Israeli consensus on democracy, this article demonstrates that retiring democracy has long been the agenda of the faction of the Israeli right most empowered in Israel's current government, namely the settler movement. Following the discourse in Sovereignty: A Political Journal , …
Media Representations of Gendered Minority Practices
This paper critically examines how the mainstream media in Israel frame the phenomenon of polygamy among the minority Palestinian Bedouin community within the country. We identify four prominent media frames: (1) an "orientalist" frame, which considers Muslim women as in need of saving from their own culture and religion's oppression by a modernizing state; (2) a "securitization" frame, which links the practice of polygamy to threats to the state…
Radical-right cooptation of feminism in Israel
This article explores how purportedly feminist and far-right commitments are at times in alignment with each other and how political bargaining between feminist agendas and racist radical-right agendas creates new alliances. This unusual alliance advances the radical-right ethnonationalist objective that further undermines the civil and political rights of an already disenfranchised population: Palestinian men and women
Women and the Holy City
Jerusalem's Temple Mount/al-Haram al-Sharif is the holiest place in the world for Jews, the third holiest place for Muslims and a constant feature in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet the gendered dimensions of inter-communal disputes over sacred space in Jerusalem, as well as in other holy places around the world, have been largely neglected, as have women's roles in these site-specific conflicts. An implicit association of women with peacef…
New Publications on Women’s Activism in Palestine
Review Article| July 01 2020 New Publications on Women’s Activism in Palestine Palestinian Women’s Activism: Nationalism, Secularism, Islamism. Jad, Islah. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018. 288 pages. isbn 9780815636144.Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival. Richter-Devroe, Sophie. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 224 pages. isbn 9780252083525. Lihi Ben Shitrit Lihi Ben Shitrit…
Gender, War, and World Order
Women’s Political Activism in Palestine
Intersectionality Theory and Working with “Both Sides”
This chapter points to the importance of thinking about intersectionality before, during, and after conducting fieldwork. In order to explore such phenomena, it focuses on doing research in Israel with Mizrahi and Palestinian-Israeli women activists on the Jewish and Muslim religious right, respectively.
Response to Motti Inbari
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Gender and the (In)divisibility of Contested Sacred Places
Contested sacred sites, over which different religious groups assert claims to exclusivity, have drawn scholarly attention to the spatial interaction between religion and politics. However, the gendered dimensions of inter-communal religious-political disputes over sacred space, and women's roles in these site-specific conflicts, have been largely neglected. Using a case study of Orthodox Jewish women's activism for access to Temple Mount al-Hara…
Gender differences in support for direct and indirect political aggression in the context of protracted conflict
The relationship between gender and political aggression is hotly debated and the empirical evidence is often mixed. While many surveys find a gender gap, with women less supportive of politically motivated aggression and violence than men, numerous case studies point to women's active involvement in political violence and refute the association of women with peacefulness. This article argues that the gender-aggression relation depends upon (1) t…
Righteous Transgressions
Authenticating Representation
The spread of women's quotas in legislative bodies across the world since the mid-1990s has become one of the most significant factors impacting levels of women's political representation (Dahlerup 2013; Krook 2009; Tripp and Kang 2008). In the Middle East, a region that has long held a place at the very bottom of global rankings of women's representation, the adoption of such quotas is transforming levels of representation (Kang 2009). But there…
Women, Freedom, and Agency in Religious Political Movements
Women’s activism in conservative religious-political movements poses a challenge to liberal feminism. Why do women participate in great numbers in political organizations that seem to limit women’s freedom and equality? My work with women activists in the Islamic Movement and the Jewish ultra-Orthodox Shas Movement in Israel, both explicitly patriarchal religious revivalist groups similar to other movements across the Middle East, finds that thes…
Women’s Political Activism in Palestine
Authenticating Representation
The spread of women's quotas in legislative bodies across the world since the mid-1990s has become one of the most significant factors impacting levels of women's political representation (Dahlerup 2013; Krook 2009; Tripp and Kang 2008). In the Middle East, a region that has long held a place at the very bottom of global rankings of women's representation, the adoption of such quotas is transforming levels of representation (Kang 2009). But there…
Gender differences in support for direct and indirect political aggression in the context of protracted conflict
The relationship between gender and political aggression is hotly debated and the empirical evidence is often mixed. While many surveys find a gender gap, with women less supportive of politically motivated aggression and violence than men, numerous case studies point to women's active involvement in political violence and refute the association of women with peacefulness. This article argues that the gender-aggression relation depends upon (1) t…
Women, Freedom, and Agency in Religious Political Movements
Women’s activism in conservative religious-political movements poses a challenge to liberal feminism. Why do women participate in great numbers in political organizations that seem to limit women’s freedom and equality? My work with women activists in the Islamic Movement and the Jewish ultra-Orthodox Shas Movement in Israel, both explicitly patriarchal religious revivalist groups similar to other movements across the Middle East, finds that thes…
Gender and the (In)divisibility of Contested Sacred Places
Contested sacred sites, over which different religious groups assert claims to exclusivity, have drawn scholarly attention to the spatial interaction between religion and politics. However, the gendered dimensions of inter-communal religious-political disputes over sacred space, and women's roles in these site-specific conflicts, have been largely neglected. Using a case study of Orthodox Jewish women's activism for access to Temple Mount al-Hara…
Sovereignty in Hebrew and the Decline of Democracy
Since assuming office in December 2022, Israel's government has worked to weaken the state's democratic infrastructure. While this appears to break from a long-standing Israeli consensus on democracy, this article demonstrates that retiring democracy has long been the agenda of the faction of the Israeli right most empowered in Israel's current government, namely the settler movement. Following the discourse in Sovereignty: A Political Journal , …
Radical-right cooptation of feminism in Israel
This article explores how purportedly feminist and far-right commitments are at times in alignment with each other and how political bargaining between feminist agendas and racist radical-right agendas creates new alliances. This unusual alliance advances the radical-right ethnonationalist objective that further undermines the civil and political rights of an already disenfranchised population: Palestinian men and women
Women, Freedom, and Agency in Religious Political Movements
Women’s activism in conservative religious-political movements poses a challenge to liberal feminism. Why do women participate in great numbers in political organizations that seem to limit women’s freedom and equality? My work with women activists in the Islamic Movement and the Jewish ultra-Orthodox Shas Movement in Israel, both explicitly patriarchal religious revivalist groups similar to other movements across the Middle East, finds that thes…
Righteous Transgressions
Authenticating Representation
The spread of women's quotas in legislative bodies across the world since the mid-1990s has become one of the most significant factors impacting levels of women's political representation (Dahlerup 2013; Krook 2009; Tripp and Kang 2008). In the Middle East, a region that has long held a place at the very bottom of global rankings of women's representation, the adoption of such quotas is transforming levels of representation (Kang 2009). But there…
Response to Motti Inbari
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Gender and the (In)divisibility of Contested Sacred Places
Contested sacred sites, over which different religious groups assert claims to exclusivity, have drawn scholarly attention to the spatial interaction between religion and politics. However, the gendered dimensions of inter-communal religious-political disputes over sacred space, and women's roles in these site-specific conflicts, have been largely neglected. Using a case study of Orthodox Jewish women's activism for access to Temple Mount al-Hara…
Gender differences in support for direct and indirect political aggression in the context of protracted conflict
The relationship between gender and political aggression is hotly debated and the empirical evidence is often mixed. While many surveys find a gender gap, with women less supportive of politically motivated aggression and violence than men, numerous case studies point to women's active involvement in political violence and refute the association of women with peacefulness. This article argues that the gender-aggression relation depends upon (1) t…
Intersectionality Theory and Working with “Both Sides”
This chapter points to the importance of thinking about intersectionality before, during, and after conducting fieldwork. In order to explore such phenomena, it focuses on doing research in Israel with Mizrahi and Palestinian-Israeli women activists on the Jewish and Muslim religious right, respectively.
Women’s Political Activism in Palestine
Women and the Holy City
Jerusalem's Temple Mount/al-Haram al-Sharif is the holiest place in the world for Jews, the third holiest place for Muslims and a constant feature in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet the gendered dimensions of inter-communal disputes over sacred space in Jerusalem, as well as in other holy places around the world, have been largely neglected, as have women's roles in these site-specific conflicts. An implicit association of women with peacef…
New Publications on Women’s Activism in Palestine
Review Article| July 01 2020 New Publications on Women’s Activism in Palestine Palestinian Women’s Activism: Nationalism, Secularism, Islamism. Jad, Islah. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018. 288 pages. isbn 9780815636144.Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival. Richter-Devroe, Sophie. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 224 pages. isbn 9780252083525. Lihi Ben Shitrit Lihi Ben Shitrit…
Gender, War, and World Order
Radical-right cooptation of feminism in Israel
This article explores how purportedly feminist and far-right commitments are at times in alignment with each other and how political bargaining between feminist agendas and racist radical-right agendas creates new alliances. This unusual alliance advances the radical-right ethnonationalist objective that further undermines the civil and political rights of an already disenfranchised population: Palestinian men and women
Media Representations of Gendered Minority Practices
This paper critically examines how the mainstream media in Israel frame the phenomenon of polygamy among the minority Palestinian Bedouin community within the country. We identify four prominent media frames: (1) an "orientalist" frame, which considers Muslim women as in need of saving from their own culture and religion's oppression by a modernizing state; (2) a "securitization" frame, which links the practice of polygamy to threats to the state…
Sovereignty in Hebrew and the Decline of Democracy
Since assuming office in December 2022, Israel's government has worked to weaken the state's democratic infrastructure. While this appears to break from a long-standing Israeli consensus on democracy, this article demonstrates that retiring democracy has long been the agenda of the faction of the Israeli right most empowered in Israel's current government, namely the settler movement. Following the discourse in Sovereignty: A Political Journal , …
Feminism(s) and authoritarianism(s) in the Middle East and North Africa
Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (6 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (5 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (5 works)