TY - JOUR
T1 - Contribution to the Collective by Religious-Zionist Adolescent Girls
AU - Rapoport, Tamar
AU - Penso, Anat
AU - Garb, Yoni
PY - 1994/1/1
Y1 - 1994/1/1
N2 - The act of contribution to the collective raises a major dilemma in contemporary religious Zionism in regard to girls and women: how to maintain their traditional restriction to the domestic sphere while allowing participation in national tasks that demand their presence in the male-dominated public sphere. From in-depth interviews conducted with 37 seventeen-year-old religious girls studying in a uni-sex residential boarding high school, we uncover the manner in which these girls, as thy proceed to young adulthood, experience the act of contribution in three social arenas: the Bnei Akivayouth movement, national service and the domestic sphere. Our analysis reveals a gradual recruitment to contribution during the passage from girlhood to womanhoodparalleled by the gradual intensification of feminineJ qualities. This process facilitates the girls3 participation in the public sphere without challenging the traditional gender dichotomy. It also constitutes a central practice by means of which religious-Zionist society recruits the girls to the Israeli collective yet keeps them within its own socio-cultural boundaries.
AB - The act of contribution to the collective raises a major dilemma in contemporary religious Zionism in regard to girls and women: how to maintain their traditional restriction to the domestic sphere while allowing participation in national tasks that demand their presence in the male-dominated public sphere. From in-depth interviews conducted with 37 seventeen-year-old religious girls studying in a uni-sex residential boarding high school, we uncover the manner in which these girls, as thy proceed to young adulthood, experience the act of contribution in three social arenas: the Bnei Akivayouth movement, national service and the domestic sphere. Our analysis reveals a gradual recruitment to contribution during the passage from girlhood to womanhoodparalleled by the gradual intensification of feminineJ qualities. This process facilitates the girls3 participation in the public sphere without challenging the traditional gender dichotomy. It also constitutes a central practice by means of which religious-Zionist society recruits the girls to the Israeli collective yet keeps them within its own socio-cultural boundaries.
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U2 - 10.1080/0142569940150305
DO - 10.1080/0142569940150305
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AN - SCOPUS:84937318614
SN - 0142-5692
VL - 15
SP - 375
EP - 388
JO - British Journal of Sociology of Education
JF - British Journal of Sociology of Education
IS - 3
ER -