Description: Righteous Transgressions Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Women's Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right Author(s): Lihi Ben Shitrit Format: Paperback Publisher: Princeton University Press, United States Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 9780691164571, 978-0691164571 Synopsis How do women in conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements' strict ideas about male and female roles? How and why does this activism happen in some movements but not in others? Righteous Transgressions examines these questions by comparatively studying four groups: the Jewish settlers in the West Bank, the ultra-Orthodox Shas, the Islamic Movement in Israel, and the Palestinian Hamas. Lihi Ben Shitrit demonstrates that women's prioritization of a nationalist agenda over a proselytizing one shapes their activist involvement. Ben Shitrit shows how women construct "frames of exception" that temporarily suspend, rather than challenge, some of the limiting aspects of their movements' gender ideology. Viewing women as agents in such movements, she analyzes the ways in which activists use nationalism to astutely reframe gender role transgressions from inappropriate to righteous. The author engages the literature on women's agency in Muslim and Jewish religious contexts, and sheds light on the centrality of women's activism to the promotion of the spiritual, social, cultural, and political agendas of both the Israeli and Palestinian religious right. Looking at the four most influential political movements of the Israeli and Palestinian religious right, Righteous Transgressions reveals how the bounds of gender expectations can be crossed for the political good.
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Book Title: Righteous Transgressions
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Righteous Transgressions: Women's Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Government, Zoology
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 425 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Lihi Ben Shitrit
Subject Area: Political Sociology, Social Organisations
Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
