Naïve, Unworldly and Unexperienced: Women Wage Peace and the Backlash against Feminist Peace Politics in Israel

• In Event: How Gender Signifies: The Gendered Politics of Leadership, Peace Advocacy, and Cultural Threat

Brief Overview

The paper presents findings from an ethnographic study of Women Wage Peace, an Israeli women’s peace movement as a case study for understanding the persistence of traditional gender roles in conflict related politics in Israel.

Author

• Sarai B Aharoni, Ben Gurion University of the Negev