Graduation Year
2019
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Middle East Studies
Second Department
Anthropology
Reader 1
Lara Deeb
Reader 2
Dan Segal
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© 2019 Maya Almogy
OCLC Record Number
1105152462
Abstract
Jewish Israeli Women Soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are marked as the feminine "other" and work to reify the institution's power in Israeli nation-making. As subjects of the militarized Israeli state, women operate as legitimizers of Israel's masculinist authority. They soften the aggressive actions of the IDF through their demarcation in the feminine category, but they are also capable of furthering Israel's arguments regarding its egalitarian modernity through narratives of female "empowerment." As the subjugated "other" within ideas of Jewish Israeli national belonging, Jewish Israeli women soldiers operate for the means of the state's re/production of the nation and therefore of the state's power.
Recommended Citation
almogy, maya, "State Power and the Formation of Subjects as Re/Production of the Nation: Jewish Israeli Women and the Israeli Military Identity" (2019). Scripps Senior Theses. 1392.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1392
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
