Abstract
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’.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 77-91 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Ethnography |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2001 |
Keywords
- betrayal
- body
- iconography
- Israel
- masculinity
- military