T Zion-Waldoks
Biographic Data
| ID | 50024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Zion-Waldoks |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Zion-Waldoks |
| SIGNATURE | ZION-WALDOKS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8538-563X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Parenting as Civic Action
This article conceptualizes parenting as a form of civic action. Identifying a relational turn in theories of citizenship, we propose an analytical framework for examining civic meanings in everyday parental acts. Foregrounding the intersubjective and intergenerational nature of state–citizen relations, the framework expands existing theories to account for parental actions that are not readily recognized as political. Moving beyond a predominant…
Luckily, I am not ‘all men’“
Are “all men” complicit in violence against women (VAW)? This study examines the dynamics of claim-making in online debates over this question. Analyzing a glocal Israeli case-study drawing on Facebook posts, digital op-eds, and comment sections from 2020 to 2022—a period of heightened attention to VAW—we trace discursive negotiations around the “all men” claim and its #NotAllMen backlash. Focusing on post-, anti-, and pro-feminist positions, rar…
At the Head of the Circle
This article explores the construction of women’s authority in Israeli pluralistic Batei Midrash (houses of learning). Drawing on qualitative interviews with experienced women facilitators, it examines how they enact a form of authority that differs significantly from traditional models. Beyond deriving legitimacy from institutional position or textual mastery, their authority is built through professional vulnerability and relational work. The a…
Blurred lines and sacred texts
Female Jewish-Orthodox Tanakh (Jewish Bible) teachers working in non-Orthodox Jewish day schools navigate the tension of upholding their religious beliefs and practices while teaching students who challenge these beliefs. This paper is based on a secondary analysis of qualitative data focusing on a small subgroup of female teachers and the impact their interactions with students have on their religious gendered identity and pedagogical practices.…
Marrying gender, religion, and state in Israel
Faithful Families and Divine Bonds of Care
This paper engages the field of lived religion, which centers practices, gender, power, and marginalized voices while expanding its scope to include an understudied community and explore the role of the family. Using feminist narrative analysis of qualitative interviews, we argue familial contexts serve as core formative spaces for constructing lived religion and sustaining young Mizrahi-Masorti Jewish-Israelis' identities, often excluded from ed…
Femicide as 'National Emergency
For feminists, garnering the support of mainstream public opinion is a risky, if necessary, endeavor. In this article, we analyze contemporary feminist discourses regarding violence against women in Israel/Palestine, focusing on the latest, most extensive, and most successful attempt by feminists to transform Israeli public opinion on the subject. Our analysis exposes divergent feminist frames as they find purchase in mainstream discourses and en…
Rescuing the Jewish Family, One Divorce at a Time
Religious Feminism(s) and Beyond
The "Tempered Radical" Revolution
Agunah activism, a flagship struggle of Religious-Zionist feminism, links gender politics, Jewish-Orthodox politics, and national Israeli politics. This qualitative study focuses on agunah activists' strategies and conceptions of change, highlighting the complex ways religious women radically transform conservative contexts, complicated by intersections of religion, gender, and state. It examines dynamic boundary-work and how activists deploy the…
The First Female Qadi in Israel's Shari`a (Muslim) Courts
Tanya Zion-Waldoks, Ronit Irshai, Bana Shoughry, The First Female Qadi in Israel's Shari`a (Muslim) Courts: Nomos and Narrative, Shofar, Vol. 38, No. 2, The Feminism and Art of Jewish Orthodox and Haredi Women (Summer 2020), pp. 229-262
"Whose House Is This?" Gendered (Dis)belongings, Homemaking, and Displacement in Israel's Rabbinic Courts
This article explores how space, gender, and religion construct a politics of belonging and how it may be transformative and transformed. Our case study suggests that being at home and displaced can be experienced simultaneously within the same space. We understand these experiences to be processual, interactive, and culturally contingent. We conceptualize “at home” and “displaced” as mutually constituted theoretical signifiers not limited to ter…
Politics of Devoted Resistance
This study explores how religious women become legitimate actors in the public sphere and analyzes their agency-its meanings, capacities, and transformative aims. It presents a novel case study of Israeli Modern-Orthodox Agunah activists who engage in highly politicized collective feminist resistance as religious actors working for religious ends. Embedded in and activated by Orthodoxy, they advocate women's rights to divorce, voicing a moral cri…
Politics of Devoted Resistance
This study explores how religious women become legitimate actors in the public sphere and analyzes their agency-its meanings, capacities, and transformative aims. It presents a novel case study of Israeli Modern-Orthodox Agunah activists who engage in highly politicized collective feminist resistance as religious actors working for religious ends. Embedded in and activated by Orthodoxy, they advocate women's rights to divorce, voicing a moral cri…
The "Tempered Radical" Revolution
Agunah activism, a flagship struggle of Religious-Zionist feminism, links gender politics, Jewish-Orthodox politics, and national Israeli politics. This qualitative study focuses on agunah activists' strategies and conceptions of change, highlighting the complex ways religious women radically transform conservative contexts, complicated by intersections of religion, gender, and state. It examines dynamic boundary-work and how activists deploy the…
"Whose House Is This?" Gendered (Dis)belongings, Homemaking, and Displacement in Israel's Rabbinic Courts
This article explores how space, gender, and religion construct a politics of belonging and how it may be transformative and transformed. Our case study suggests that being at home and displaced can be experienced simultaneously within the same space. We understand these experiences to be processual, interactive, and culturally contingent. We conceptualize “at home” and “displaced” as mutually constituted theoretical signifiers not limited to ter…
Politics of Devoted Resistance
This study explores how religious women become legitimate actors in the public sphere and analyzes their agency-its meanings, capacities, and transformative aims. It presents a novel case study of Israeli Modern-Orthodox Agunah activists who engage in highly politicized collective feminist resistance as religious actors working for religious ends. Embedded in and activated by Orthodoxy, they advocate women's rights to divorce, voicing a moral cri…
"Whose House Is This?" Gendered (Dis)belongings, Homemaking, and Displacement in Israel's Rabbinic Courts
This article explores how space, gender, and religion construct a politics of belonging and how it may be transformative and transformed. Our case study suggests that being at home and displaced can be experienced simultaneously within the same space. We understand these experiences to be processual, interactive, and culturally contingent. We conceptualize “at home” and “displaced” as mutually constituted theoretical signifiers not limited to ter…
The First Female Qadi in Israel's Shari`a (Muslim) Courts
Tanya Zion-Waldoks, Ronit Irshai, Bana Shoughry, The First Female Qadi in Israel's Shari`a (Muslim) Courts: Nomos and Narrative, Shofar, Vol. 38, No. 2, The Feminism and Art of Jewish Orthodox and Haredi Women (Summer 2020), pp. 229-262
Religious Feminism(s) and Beyond
The "Tempered Radical" Revolution
Agunah activism, a flagship struggle of Religious-Zionist feminism, links gender politics, Jewish-Orthodox politics, and national Israeli politics. This qualitative study focuses on agunah activists' strategies and conceptions of change, highlighting the complex ways religious women radically transform conservative contexts, complicated by intersections of religion, gender, and state. It examines dynamic boundary-work and how activists deploy the…
Rescuing the Jewish Family, One Divorce at a Time
Blurred lines and sacred texts
Female Jewish-Orthodox Tanakh (Jewish Bible) teachers working in non-Orthodox Jewish day schools navigate the tension of upholding their religious beliefs and practices while teaching students who challenge these beliefs. This paper is based on a secondary analysis of qualitative data focusing on a small subgroup of female teachers and the impact their interactions with students have on their religious gendered identity and pedagogical practices.…
Marrying gender, religion, and state in Israel
Faithful Families and Divine Bonds of Care
This paper engages the field of lived religion, which centers practices, gender, power, and marginalized voices while expanding its scope to include an understudied community and explore the role of the family. Using feminist narrative analysis of qualitative interviews, we argue familial contexts serve as core formative spaces for constructing lived religion and sustaining young Mizrahi-Masorti Jewish-Israelis' identities, often excluded from ed…
Femicide as 'National Emergency
For feminists, garnering the support of mainstream public opinion is a risky, if necessary, endeavor. In this article, we analyze contemporary feminist discourses regarding violence against women in Israel/Palestine, focusing on the latest, most extensive, and most successful attempt by feminists to transform Israeli public opinion on the subject. Our analysis exposes divergent feminist frames as they find purchase in mainstream discourses and en…
Parenting as Civic Action
This article conceptualizes parenting as a form of civic action. Identifying a relational turn in theories of citizenship, we propose an analytical framework for examining civic meanings in everyday parental acts. Foregrounding the intersubjective and intergenerational nature of state–citizen relations, the framework expands existing theories to account for parental actions that are not readily recognized as political. Moving beyond a predominant…
Luckily, I am not ‘all men’“
Are “all men” complicit in violence against women (VAW)? This study examines the dynamics of claim-making in online debates over this question. Analyzing a glocal Israeli case-study drawing on Facebook posts, digital op-eds, and comment sections from 2020 to 2022—a period of heightened attention to VAW—we trace discursive negotiations around the “all men” claim and its #NotAllMen backlash. Focusing on post-, anti-, and pro-feminist positions, rar…
At the Head of the Circle
This article explores the construction of women’s authority in Israeli pluralistic Batei Midrash (houses of learning). Drawing on qualitative interviews with experienced women facilitators, it examines how they enact a form of authority that differs significantly from traditional models. Beyond deriving legitimacy from institutional position or textual mastery, their authority is built through professional vulnerability and relational work. The a…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Judaism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (4 works) · Narrative (4 works)