Sharon Halevi
Biographic Data
| ID | 210283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Halevi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Halevi |
| SIGNATURE | HALEVI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8984-217X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transatlantic crossings: Travel, family visits and emotions in the early American republic
An Autoethnography of the Artist as a Young Woman? Susanna Paine's Roses and Thorns (1854)
Roses and Thorns, or Recollections of an Artist (1854), the autobiography of American painter Susanna Paine (1792-1862) has been overlooked despite its historical value, due to its alleged affinity to fiction. In this article I argue that Paine’s narrative should be read instead as an early attempt to write in the autoethnographical mode; I demonstrate my argument by focusing on one such “fictional” element, her use of composite vignettes. I find…
You feel embodied with the cataract: ” American girls, landscape and national identity in the early republic
This article examines how American girls and young women in the early republic formed a new sense of a “corporeal” national identity while touring areas of the Hudson River valley and the Great Lakes. Based on a reading of the travel writings of fifteen white, middle and upper-middle class, American girls and young women travelling between 1802 and 1835, it demonstrates first that during the tours within the United States the girls underwent a mu…
In sunshine and in shadow: Adolescent girls and thanatourism in the early American Republic
Children’s and adolescents’ tourist activities and patterns before the late nineteenth century have not garnered much scholarly attention. This study addresses this oversight by focusing on the travel experiences of thirteen, white, middle and upper-middle class, American adolescent girls touring the United States between 1782 and 1834. I trace their visits to two site clusters: battlefields, forts, and cemeteries, and prisons, hospitals and asyl…
I’m just doing my job’: The First Lady and the Work of Political Mythmaking in Pablo Larraín’s Jackie (2016)
Jackie (2016 Jackie (2016), dir. Pablo Larraín, Los Angeles: LD Entertainment.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), Pablo Larraín’s biopic of Jacqueline Kennedy, is the first full-length feature film devoting serious attention to an American First Lady and the work she carries out. I argue that Larraín’s interpretation should be read as an endeavour to render visible a First Lady’s largely invisible work of image-making. Larraín’s subversion of biopic …
Gendering Culture In Greater Syria: Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period
The Nahda (lit. ‘the Awakening’) was one of the most significant cultural movements in modern Arab history. By focusing on the neglected role of women in the intellectual Islamic renaissance of the late Ottoman Period, Fruma Zachs and Sharon Halevi provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exploration of gender and culture in the Arab World. Focusing mainly on Greater Syria, this book re-examines the cultural by-products of the Nahda - such as sci…
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Changing Women, Changing Society
Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't: Tzipi Livni and the debate on a “feminine” leadership style in the Israeli press
This article seeks to understand the gendered dynamics of political leadership in contemporary Israeli society by examining how the Israeli press dealt with the issue of Tzipi Livni's “womanhood” and “feminine style” (or lack thereof) in the course of the 2008–2009 campaign. By analyzing the media debate surrounding Livni's candidacy to the premiership, I am able to complicate the discussion concerning the media's treatment of the issue of gender…
What a Difference a Place Makes: The Reflexive (Mis) management of a City’s Pasts
In this article the authors use the concept of “place memory” to contemplate how the temporal qualities of places inflect the activities carried out in them by considering how one group, the Haifa chapter of Women in Black (WiB) in Israel, makes conscious and unconscious use of the possible readings of an “ordinary” place and its history. The authors demonstrate the argument by analyzing the group’s peregrinations over the past twenty years. Afte…
The site of silence: Performing the economy of (non-)memory in Israel
In this study we seek to understand the gendered dynamics of bearing witness, remembering, and mourning in contemporary Israeli society by examining the performative practices of one protest movement, Women in Black (WiB). Our focus is on the Haifa chapter of the movement, whose vigils we observed over a seven-year period. After a brief overview of the literature regarding national remembering and commemoration in Israel, the formation of WiB and…
From Difāʿ Al-Nisāʾ to Masʾalat Al-Nisāʾ in Greater Syria: Readers and Writers Debate Women and Their Rights, 1858–1900
In this article we present a threefold argument—chronological, geographical, and sociocultural—in order to demonstrate that interest in the woman question and the lively, and at times charged, debate that it stimulated began in Greater Syria in the early nahḍa (awakening) period and persisted throughout, drawing into its orbit leading intellectuals as well as members of the general public and permeating even peripheral areas of Greater Syria. The…
Staging Peace Through a Gendered Demonstration: Women in Black in Haifa, Israel
Israeli Women in Black was founded twenty years ago to demonstrate for peace and against the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Their political activism involves three spatial processes: outing their protest by taking to the streets, locating their protest through strategic siting, and performing their politics, thus redefining the places they occupy. The Haifa chapter has relocated its demonstrations several times in response to politica…
Negotiating National Boundaries: Palestinian and Jewish Women’s Studies Students in Israel
This article examines the intersection of gender and national identity in an Israeli university, focusing on the Women's Studies classroom. Taking into consideration the overshadowing effect of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, we wondered how exposure to Women's Studies’ egalitarian ethos and studying in a mixed Palestinian–Jewish classroom affects the feminist solidarity and national identity of young women students. In-depth interviews with el…
I Carry Out Small Wars: The Impact of Women's Studies on Palestinian and Jewish Students in Israel
This study examines the experiences of young Palestinian and Jewish women graduates of the Women's Studies program at an Israeli research university. Relying on in-depth semi-structured interviews it finds that although most of the respondents registered in the program without a clear idea of what it was, most found their exposure to Women's Studies highly beneficial and enjoyable. All shared a strong sense of empowerment. This sense of empowerme…
She Who Must Be Obeyed: The Media and Political Spouses in Israel
The article examines the Israeli media's treatment of politicians' wives during the late 1990s, when it abandoned its long-held custom of ignoring them. By examining the language and narrative strategies employed, the author demonstrates the crucial role the media is playing in formulating, framing, and disseminating the debate on Israeli national identity in general, and gender identity in particular, as the state is entering its post-foundation…
The Premier Body: Sarah Netanyahu, Nava Barak, and the Discourse of Womanhood in Israel
The Premier Body: Sarah Netanyahu, Nava Barak, and the Discourse of Womanhood in Israel
With the election of Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996, the prime minister's wife has emerged as a public figure for commentary by the Israeli body politic. Sarah Netanyahu came under unprecedented scrutiny by the Israeli public and the press. Her public and private behavior, child-rearing practices, clothes and hairstyles, as well as the intimate details of her first marriage and her treatment of her employees were exposed to public view and discussion…
Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't: Tzipi Livni and the debate on a “feminine” leadership style in the Israeli press
This article seeks to understand the gendered dynamics of political leadership in contemporary Israeli society by examining how the Israeli press dealt with the issue of Tzipi Livni's “womanhood” and “feminine style” (or lack thereof) in the course of the 2008–2009 campaign. By analyzing the media debate surrounding Livni's candidacy to the premiership, I am able to complicate the discussion concerning the media's treatment of the issue of gender…
From Difāʿ Al-Nisāʾ to Masʾalat Al-Nisāʾ in Greater Syria: Readers and Writers Debate Women and Their Rights, 1858–1900
In this article we present a threefold argument—chronological, geographical, and sociocultural—in order to demonstrate that interest in the woman question and the lively, and at times charged, debate that it stimulated began in Greater Syria in the early nahḍa (awakening) period and persisted throughout, drawing into its orbit leading intellectuals as well as members of the general public and permeating even peripheral areas of Greater Syria. The…
Staging Peace Through a Gendered Demonstration: Women in Black in Haifa, Israel
Israeli Women in Black was founded twenty years ago to demonstrate for peace and against the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Their political activism involves three spatial processes: outing their protest by taking to the streets, locating their protest through strategic siting, and performing their politics, thus redefining the places they occupy. The Haifa chapter has relocated its demonstrations several times in response to politica…
I Carry Out Small Wars: The Impact of Women's Studies on Palestinian and Jewish Students in Israel
This study examines the experiences of young Palestinian and Jewish women graduates of the Women's Studies program at an Israeli research university. Relying on in-depth semi-structured interviews it finds that although most of the respondents registered in the program without a clear idea of what it was, most found their exposure to Women's Studies highly beneficial and enjoyable. All shared a strong sense of empowerment. This sense of empowerme…
She Who Must Be Obeyed: The Media and Political Spouses in Israel
The article examines the Israeli media's treatment of politicians' wives during the late 1990s, when it abandoned its long-held custom of ignoring them. By examining the language and narrative strategies employed, the author demonstrates the crucial role the media is playing in formulating, framing, and disseminating the debate on Israeli national identity in general, and gender identity in particular, as the state is entering its post-foundation…
The Premier Body: Sarah Netanyahu, Nava Barak, and the Discourse of Womanhood in Israel
The Premier Body: Sarah Netanyahu, Nava Barak, and the Discourse of Womanhood in Israel
With the election of Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996, the prime minister's wife has emerged as a public figure for commentary by the Israeli body politic. Sarah Netanyahu came under unprecedented scrutiny by the Israeli public and the press. Her public and private behavior, child-rearing practices, clothes and hairstyles, as well as the intimate details of her first marriage and her treatment of her employees were exposed to public view and discussion…
She Who Must Be Obeyed: The Media and Political Spouses in Israel
The article examines the Israeli media's treatment of politicians' wives during the late 1990s, when it abandoned its long-held custom of ignoring them. By examining the language and narrative strategies employed, the author demonstrates the crucial role the media is playing in formulating, framing, and disseminating the debate on Israeli national identity in general, and gender identity in particular, as the state is entering its post-foundation…
Negotiating National Boundaries: Palestinian and Jewish Women’s Studies Students in Israel
This article examines the intersection of gender and national identity in an Israeli university, focusing on the Women's Studies classroom. Taking into consideration the overshadowing effect of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, we wondered how exposure to Women's Studies’ egalitarian ethos and studying in a mixed Palestinian–Jewish classroom affects the feminist solidarity and national identity of young women students. In-depth interviews with el…
I Carry Out Small Wars: The Impact of Women's Studies on Palestinian and Jewish Students in Israel
This study examines the experiences of young Palestinian and Jewish women graduates of the Women's Studies program at an Israeli research university. Relying on in-depth semi-structured interviews it finds that although most of the respondents registered in the program without a clear idea of what it was, most found their exposure to Women's Studies highly beneficial and enjoyable. All shared a strong sense of empowerment. This sense of empowerme…
From Difāʿ Al-Nisāʾ to Masʾalat Al-Nisāʾ in Greater Syria: Readers and Writers Debate Women and Their Rights, 1858–1900
In this article we present a threefold argument—chronological, geographical, and sociocultural—in order to demonstrate that interest in the woman question and the lively, and at times charged, debate that it stimulated began in Greater Syria in the early nahḍa (awakening) period and persisted throughout, drawing into its orbit leading intellectuals as well as members of the general public and permeating even peripheral areas of Greater Syria. The…
Staging Peace Through a Gendered Demonstration: Women in Black in Haifa, Israel
Israeli Women in Black was founded twenty years ago to demonstrate for peace and against the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Their political activism involves three spatial processes: outing their protest by taking to the streets, locating their protest through strategic siting, and performing their politics, thus redefining the places they occupy. The Haifa chapter has relocated its demonstrations several times in response to politica…
Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't: Tzipi Livni and the debate on a “feminine” leadership style in the Israeli press
This article seeks to understand the gendered dynamics of political leadership in contemporary Israeli society by examining how the Israeli press dealt with the issue of Tzipi Livni's “womanhood” and “feminine style” (or lack thereof) in the course of the 2008–2009 campaign. By analyzing the media debate surrounding Livni's candidacy to the premiership, I am able to complicate the discussion concerning the media's treatment of the issue of gender…
What a Difference a Place Makes: The Reflexive (Mis) management of a City’s Pasts
In this article the authors use the concept of “place memory” to contemplate how the temporal qualities of places inflect the activities carried out in them by considering how one group, the Haifa chapter of Women in Black (WiB) in Israel, makes conscious and unconscious use of the possible readings of an “ordinary” place and its history. The authors demonstrate the argument by analyzing the group’s peregrinations over the past twenty years. Afte…
The site of silence: Performing the economy of (non-)memory in Israel
In this study we seek to understand the gendered dynamics of bearing witness, remembering, and mourning in contemporary Israeli society by examining the performative practices of one protest movement, Women in Black (WiB). Our focus is on the Haifa chapter of the movement, whose vigils we observed over a seven-year period. After a brief overview of the literature regarding national remembering and commemoration in Israel, the formation of WiB and…
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Changing Women, Changing Society
Gendering Culture In Greater Syria: Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period
The Nahda (lit. ‘the Awakening’) was one of the most significant cultural movements in modern Arab history. By focusing on the neglected role of women in the intellectual Islamic renaissance of the late Ottoman Period, Fruma Zachs and Sharon Halevi provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exploration of gender and culture in the Arab World. Focusing mainly on Greater Syria, this book re-examines the cultural by-products of the Nahda - such as sci…
You feel embodied with the cataract: ” American girls, landscape and national identity in the early republic
This article examines how American girls and young women in the early republic formed a new sense of a “corporeal” national identity while touring areas of the Hudson River valley and the Great Lakes. Based on a reading of the travel writings of fifteen white, middle and upper-middle class, American girls and young women travelling between 1802 and 1835, it demonstrates first that during the tours within the United States the girls underwent a mu…
In sunshine and in shadow: Adolescent girls and thanatourism in the early American Republic
Children’s and adolescents’ tourist activities and patterns before the late nineteenth century have not garnered much scholarly attention. This study addresses this oversight by focusing on the travel experiences of thirteen, white, middle and upper-middle class, American adolescent girls touring the United States between 1782 and 1834. I trace their visits to two site clusters: battlefields, forts, and cemeteries, and prisons, hospitals and asyl…
I’m just doing my job’: The First Lady and the Work of Political Mythmaking in Pablo Larraín’s Jackie (2016)
Jackie (2016 Jackie (2016), dir. Pablo Larraín, Los Angeles: LD Entertainment.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), Pablo Larraín’s biopic of Jacqueline Kennedy, is the first full-length feature film devoting serious attention to an American First Lady and the work she carries out. I argue that Larraín’s interpretation should be read as an endeavour to render visible a First Lady’s largely invisible work of image-making. Larraín’s subversion of biopic …
An Autoethnography of the Artist as a Young Woman? Susanna Paine's Roses and Thorns (1854)
Roses and Thorns, or Recollections of an Artist (1854), the autobiography of American painter Susanna Paine (1792-1862) has been overlooked despite its historical value, due to its alleged affinity to fiction. In this article I argue that Paine’s narrative should be read instead as an early attempt to write in the autoethnographical mode; I demonstrate my argument by focusing on one such “fictional” element, her use of composite vignettes. I find…
Transatlantic crossings: Travel, family visits and emotions in the early American republic
Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (12 works) · Law (12 works) · History (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works)