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Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women On Israel'S Periphery (Raphael Patai Series In Jewish Folklore And Anthropology),Used
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Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery offers a rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalized development town in the Israeli Negev. Placing the stories of five women at the center, author Pnina MotzafiHaller depicts a range of creative strategies used by each woman to make a meaningful life within a reality of multiple exclusions. These limitations, MotzafiHaller argues, create a 'concrete box,' which, unlike the 'glass ceiling' of the liberal feminist discourse, is multidimensional and harder to break free from.As the stories unfold, the reader is introduced to the unique paths developed by each of five women in order to keep their families and community together in the face of the stigmatic and hegemonic narratives of Israelis who seldom set foot in their social and geographic periphery. MotzafiHaller's ethnography includes the daily struggles of Nurit, a single mother with a drugaddicted partner, in her attempt to make ends meet and escape social isolation; Ephrat's investment in an increasingly religiousobservant lifestyle; the juggling acts of Rachel, who develops a creative mix of narratives of self, using middleclass rhetoric in reimagining a material reality of continued dependence on the welfare system; the rebellious choices of Esti, who at thirtyfive, refuses to marry, have children, or keep a stable job, celebrating against all odds a life of gambling, consumption beyond her means, and a tight and supportive social network; and the life story of Gila, who was born in Yeruham but was able to 'escape' it and establish herself in middleclass life as a school principal. Taken together, these intimate narratives ask us to consider both the potential and limitations of postcolonial feminist insights about the manner in which knowledge is produced.Concrete Boxes offers sustained reflection about Israeli reality rarely documented in scholarly work and a thoughtprovoking theoretical exploration of the ways in which individual agency encounters social restrictions and how social marginality is reproduced and challenged at the same time.
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