SOCC29H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 11: Israeli Jews, Hegemonic Masculinity, Masculinity
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Several thousand palestinian men currently volunteer to serve in the israeli military as well as in the police force and border patrol and are commonly perceived in the. This paper suggests that the agency of palestinian men in israel, both inside and outside the military, is better understood within strict limits set by the israeli state. The military has played a central nation-building role. As the workshop of the new nation, universal conscription was used to create and socialize new jews: service in the military and participation in the ritual of security is a second bar. Mitzvah, a crucial rite of passage to full israeli citizenship that indoctrinates cohort after cohort of israeli jewish youth. This construct doesn"t apply to palestinians living inside israel. Berstein (2001) argues that the crossing of the boundaries of the collective is often linked with the crossing of boundaries of gendered morality: palestinian women suspected of collaboration, that is, of working with the.
