The Culture in Global Affairs program is hosting its second event of 2010 this week on Wednesday, February 24. For those in the D.C. area, we would love to have you join us. You can RSVP here.
Conflicts in Israeli Feminism and the Question of Palestine
Dr. Smadar Lavie
Associate Professor of Studies in Women and Gender
University of Virginia
February 24, 2010
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
1957 E Street NW, Lindner Family Commons (Room 602)
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Professor Lavie explores the conflicts inside the Israeli feminist movements. What is largely known outside Israel, and in English, as “Israeli feminism” is the feminism of the minority European-Jewish elite. It bears little or no appeal to the grassroots – the Mizrahi (“eastern,” Hebrew) majority of Israeli women, who are of Middle Eastern origins. Most Mizrahi communities vote for right-wing parties partially because left-wing parties are associated with the Ashkenazi elite. The deep commitment of the general Mizrahi population to Zionist ideology places Mizrahi feminists, critical of Ashkenazi Zionism, in a predicament.
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