Five Emigration: The Case of the Israeli Lesbian

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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Knowing Lesbians, Lesbian Knowing: Introduction 1
5. Experience
6. Lesbians in Israel: A Legal Perspective 15
7. The Story of CLaF: The Community of Lesbian Feminists 39
8. To Re-Construct the Community: Lesbians on a Kibbutz 65
9. Emigration: The Case of the Israeli Lesbian 73
10. Orthodox Lesbians: Not a Contradiction in Terms 87
11. Culture and Identity
12. Toward a History of Gay Bars in Israel: A Memoir 105
13. The Presentation of Self of Young Israeli Lesbians: A Discourse on Split Identity 117
14. Crafting Multilayered Identities in Israel 135
15. From “Sexless in Russia” to “Proud Israeli Lesbian”: Immigration Stories of Coming Out 153
16. Politics
17. Lesbians in the Women’s Peace Movement 175
18. Alliance and Denial: Lesbian Protest in Women in Black 191
19. A Rainbow Kufiyya 211
20. Social Construction
21. Israeli Lesbians, National Identity, and Motherhood 223
22. The Construction of Lesbianism as Nonissue in Israel 251
23. Glossary 269
24. Contributors 273
25. Index 277