When the author first went to Botswana in the early 1980s to study the impact a major land reform had on rural life in this impoverished African country, social theory and ethnographic practice seemed solid and convincing. A decade later, and again in 1999, she returned to Bostwana and to the Tswapong people whose lives she had shared, and she encountered not only a rapidly shifting social reality, but she also began to ask questions that stemmed from and were shaped by theoretical frames quite different from those she had employed in her earlier work. At the center of the narrative that runs...
When the author first went to Botswana in the early 1980s to study the impact a major land reform had on rural life in this impoverished African count...
Explores the meaning of writing in the post postmodernist moment when master narratives have been questioned and the very act of representing others has been problematized, and discusses some of the key theoretical debates emerging in the aftermath of what came to be known as the postmodernist crisis.
When the author first went to Botswana in the early 1980s to study the impact a major land reform had on rural life in this impoverished African country, social theory and ethnographic practice seemed solid and convincing. A decade later, and again in 1999, she returned to Bostwana and to...
Explores the meaning of writing in the post postmodernist moment when master narratives have been questioned and the very act of representing other...
Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery offers an intimate, textured, and 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 Motzafi-Haller depicts a range of creative strategies used by each woman to make a meaningful life within a reality of multiple exclusions-gendered, ethnic, class-based, geographic marginalization. These limitations, Motzafi-Haller argues, create a -concrete box, - which unlike the -glass ceiling- of the liberal feminist discourse, is...
Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery offers an intimate, textured, and rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalize...
Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery offers an intimate, textured, and 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 Motzafi-Haller depicts a range of creative strategies used by each woman to make a meaningful life within a reality of multiple exclusions-gendered, ethnic, class-based, geographic marginalization. These limitations, Motzafi-Haller argues, create a -concrete box, - which unlike the -glass ceiling- of the liberal feminist discourse, is...
Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery offers an intimate, textured, and rich depiction of contemporary life in one marginalize...
