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מאמרים בכתבי עת

 

  1. Aharoni, Sarai. B. 2017. Who needs the 'Women and Peace Hypothesis'? Rethinking modes of inquiry on gender and conflict in Israel/Palestine. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 19(3): 311-326.

This article considers the evolution of scholarship on the Women and Peace Hypothesis (WPH) in light of evidence obtained from longitudinal research and multilevel analysis of women's different engagements with the question of peace as citizens/civilians, peace activists and peace negotiators in Israel/Palestine. Evidence from this case suggests that: (1) feminist scholars no longer adhere to a one-dimensional prescription of the WPH but are more interested in developing intersectional methods to understand how nonlinear logics of conflict produce and sustain uncoherent gender stereotypes, roles and possibilities of action for women and men; (2) at all levels of analysis (individual, civil society, national) contextual factors, including patterns of political violence, collective identity, class and unequal gender regimes, affect women's political engagement with peace much more than any other factor. Political context and the double gender regime in Israel/Palestine determine specific forms of insecurity experienced by women and are linked to political institutions, social norms and cultural frames that inform choice of action and opportunity for change; and (3) although empirical testing of this hypothesis repeatedly fails to confirm that women are more peaceful than men, the WPH remains a strong conceptual frame that enables women's groups to politically mobilize for change.

 

פרקים בספרים

 

  1. Aharoni, Sarai. B. 2016. Studying Gender in Protracted Conflicts: Israeli Women's Lives in Quantitative Methods. In: A. Wibben (Ed.) Researching War: Feminist Methods, Ethics and Politics (pp. 205-221), New York: Rutledge.

This chapter discusses various methods to research women's experiences of insecurity during war and armed conflict and focuses on the possibility to use quantitative methods.. Building on a study that was done in Israel during the Second Intifada, I discuss how descriptive statistics and a self-reporting questionnaires could be used to capture the differences among women and better understand how these differences are linked to the cumulative impact of armed conflict on their roles, experiences, wellbeing, and political attitudes.

 

 

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    מאמרים בכתבי עת

1.      Catherine Rottenberg and Sara Farris, “Introduction: Righting Feminism," for new formations special issue, Issue 91: 5-16.  

This introduction describes and then maps out the growing phenomenon of feminism's entanglement with neoconservative and neoliberal projects.  It also provides an overview of the scholarly literature that has attempted to account for this new phenomenon.

 

2.      * Catherine Rottenberg, “Neoliberal Feminism and the Future of Human Capital," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 42.2 (2017): 329-348. 

This paper argues that we are witnessing the rise of what I term neoliberal feminism, which interpellates young women through a promise of future work-family balance. 

 

3.      * Catherine Rottenberg “The New Woman Ideal and Urban Space in Tess Slesinger's The Unpossessed," Women's Studies 45.4 (2016): 341-355.  

This paper argues that Tess Slesinger's neglected novel provides insight into the urban nature of the New Woman norm.

 

4.      * Catherine Rottenberg, “Feminism's Neoliberal Turn" for a special issue (Issue 6) of Diffractions-Graduate Journal for the Study of Culture entitled: “Feminist Ghosts: The New Cultural Life of Feminism," April 2016. 

This article argues that we are witnessing a righting of feminism, as seen by the rise of popular feminism in the mainstream and popular press.  

 

פרקים בספרים

  1. * Catherine Rottenberg, “Teaching Giovanni's Room in the Shadow of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict: Denaturalizing Privilege" in Tapan Basu and Tasneem Shahnaaz, eds,. Crossing Borders: Essays on Literature, Culture and Society, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, May 2017. pp. 95-108.

 

This article describes potential pedagogical methods for teaching Giovanni's Room, ones that denaturalize priviliege and cultivate empathy across identities and identifications.