Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Cultural constructions of war and the military in Israel / Eyal Ben-Ari and Edna Lomsky-Feder
  • Wars as catalysts of political and cultural change / Myron J. Aronoff
  • The Masada mythical narrative and the Israeli army / Nachman Ben-Yehuda
  • The Independence Day military parade: a political history of a patriotic ritual / Maoz Azaryahu
  • War, heroism, and public representations: the case of a museum of "coexistence" in Jerusalem / Efrat Ben-Zeév and Eyal Ben-Ari
  • Army and war: collective narratives of early childhood in contemporary Israel / Mirta Furman
  • Masks and soldiering: the Israeli Army and the Palestinian uprising / Eyal Ben-Ari
  • Militarism and the construction of the life-worlds of Israeli males: the case of the reserve system / Sara Helman
  • Gender, body, and the national subject: Israeli women's poetry in the War of Independence / Hannan Hever
  • Filming national identity: war and woman in Israeli cinema / Anat Zanger
  • Engendering the Gulf War: Israeli nurses and the discourse of soldiering / Meira Z. Weiss
  • Epilogue / Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari.