{"product_id":"wrapped-in-the-flag-of-israel-mizrahi-single-mothers-and-bureaucratic-torture-revised-edition-9781496205544","title":"Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture, Revised Edition","description":"In \u003ci\u003eWrapped in the Flag of Israel\u003c\/i\u003e, Smadar Lavie analyzes the racial and gender justice protest movements in the State of Israel from the 2003 Single Mothers' March to the 2014 New Black Panthers and explores the relationships between these movements, violence in Gaza, and the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lavie equates bureaucratic entanglements with pain--and, arguably, torture--in examining a state that engenders love and loyalty among its non-European Jewish women citizens while simultaneously inflicting pain on them. Weaving together memoir, auto-ethnography, political analysis, and cultural critique, \u003ci\u003eWrapped in the Flag of Israel \u003c\/i\u003epresents a model of bureaucracy as divine cosmology that is both lyrical and provocative. Lavie's focus on the often-minimized Mizraḥi population juxtaposed with the state's monolithic culture suggests that Israeli bureaucracy is based on a theological notion that inserts the categories of religion, gender, and race into the foundation of citizenship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this revised and updated edition Lavie connects intra-Jewish racial and gendered dynamics to the 2014 Gaza War, providing an extensive afterword that focuses on the developments in Mizraḥi feminist politics and culture between 2014 and 2016 and its relation to Palestinians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSmadar Lavie\u003c\/b\u003e spent nine years as a tenured professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis, and is currently a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Ethnic Studies and a visiting professor at the Institute for Social Science in the Twenty-First Century at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author and coeditor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity under Israeli and Egyptian Rule\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eThe first edition of \u003ci\u003eWrapped in the Flag of Israel\u003c\/i\u003e won honorable mention from the Association of Middle East Women's Studies and was a finalist for the Clifford Geertz Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Lavie won the 2009 Gloria Anzaldúa Prize from the American Studies Association.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52158569054482,"sku":"9781496205544","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_19247e11-635c-45c1-b5af-faaad7341366.jpg?v=1774965943","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wrapped-in-the-flag-of-israel-mizrahi-single-mothers-and-bureaucratic-torture-revised-edition-9781496205544","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}