Writing Culture' Under the Gaze of My Country

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

• The chosen body

  Open Access•Meira Weiss•Semiotica•2003

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• Engaging Empire at Home and in the Field

  Open Access•Tyler Wall•Cultural Dynamics•2011

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• The Masada myth

  Nachman Ben-Yehuda•The Masada myth•1995

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• Fields of play

  Laurel Richardson•Fields of play•1997

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• The Chosen Body

  Meira Weiss, Martin Weiss•The Chosen Body•2002

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• Gender Trouble

  Judith Butler•Gender Trouble•2011

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• War bodies, hedonist bodies

  Open Access•Meira Wei, Meira Weiss•American Ethnologist•1997

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• Engendering the Gulf War

  Open Access•Meira Wei, Meira Weiss•Journal of Contemporary Ethnography•1998

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