women's activism on the Israeli and Palestinian religious right
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ben Shitrit, Lihi
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- NO 6 2016
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, acties, religieuze bewegingen, politieke partijen, conservatisme, jodendom, islam, huishoudelijke arbeid, maatschappelijk werk, Israël, Palestina
- Description
- How do women in conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements' strict ideas about male and female roles? How and why does this activism happen in some movements but not in others? This book examines these questions by comparatively studying four groups: the Jewish settlers in the West Bank, the ultra-Orthodox Shas, the Islamic Movement in Israel, and the Palestinian Hamas. The author shows how women construct 'frames of exception' that temporarily suspend, rather than challenge, some of the limiting aspects of their movements' gender ideology. Viewing women as agents in such movements, she analyzes the ways in which activists use nationalism to reframe gender role transgressions from inappropriate to righteous.