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Susan Sered. What Makes Women Sick? Maternity, Modesty, and Militarism in Israeli Society. Brandeis Series in Jewish Women. Hanover, NH, and London: University Press of America for Brandeis University Press, 2000. x, 194 pp.; Susan Martha Kahn. Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel. Body, Commodity, Text: Studies of Objectifying Practice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. viii, 227 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2004

Ruti Kadish
Ruti Kadish
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University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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In recent years, there has been an abundance of feminist scholarship in the field of Israel studies. Notably, much of this scholarship has been in the form of articles. Dafna N. Izraeli, et al, in Sex, Gender, Politics: Women in Israel (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1999) (Hebrew), provide a comprehensive bibliography in this regard, both for Hebrew and English publications. Sered and Kahn's book-length studies are welcome and necessary contributions to the field. Both anthropologists demonstrate, in overlapping yet different ways, the daily and material ways in which Zionist practice and ideology manifest in and through women's bodies.

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AJS Review , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , April 2003 , pp. 169 - 173
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© 2003 by the Association for Jewish Studies

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