Myron J. Aronoff is professor of political science and anthropology at Rutgers University Maoz Azaryahu is a lecturer in the Geography Department of the University of Haifa Eyal Ben-Ari is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Nachman Ben-Yehuda is full professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Efrat Ben-Ze'ev is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford Dr. Mirta Furman is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and in the School of Education of Tel-Aviv University Sara Helman is a lecturer in political sociology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben Gurion University -- Beersheva Hannan Hever teaches in the Department of Poetics and Comparative Literature of Tel Aviv University Edna Lomsky-Feder, a qualitative sociologist, is a lecturer in the School of Education of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Meira Z. Weiss works in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Anat Zanger is a tenured lecturer at the Film and Television Department of Tel-Aviv University
Introduction: Cultural Constructions of War and the Military in Isreal
1
(36)
Eyal Ben-Ari
Edna Lomsky-Feder
Part I. Setting the Context
Wars as Catalysts of Political and Cultural Change
37
(20)
Myron J. Aronoff
Part II. Cultural Sites
The Masada Mythical Narrative and the Israeli Army
57
(32)
Nachman Ben-Yehuda
The Independence Day Military Parade: A Political History of a Patriotic Ritual
89
(28)
Maoz Azaryahu
War, Heroism, and Public Representations: The Case of a Museum of ``Coexistence'' in Jerusalem
117
(24)
Efrat Ben-Ze'ev
Eyal Ben-Ari
Part III. The Construction of Life-Worlds
Army and War: Collective Narratives of Early Childhood in Contemporary Israel
141
(28)
Mirta Furman
Masks and Soldiering: The Israeli Army and the Palestinian Uprising
169
(22)
Eyal Ben-Ari
Militarism and the Construction of the Life-World of Israeli Males: The Case of the Reserves System
191
(34)
Sara Helman
Part IV. Gender, Hegemony, and Resistance
Gender, Body, and the National Subject: Israeli Women's Poetry in the War of Independence
225
(36)
Hannan Hever
Filming National Identity: War and Woman in Israeli Cinema
261
(20)
Anat Zanger
Engendering the Gulf War: Israeli Nurses and the Discourse of Soldiering
281
(20)
Meira Z. Weiss
Epilogue
301
(12)
Edna Lomsky-Feder
Eyal Ben-Ari
About the Contributors
313
(4)
Index
317
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