AMALIA SA'AR
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
July 2014
JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. “Carefully on the margins: Christian-Palestinians in Haifa between nation and state.”
American Ethnologist. Vol. 25 (2): 214-239. 1998
2. “Lonely in your firm grip: women in Israeli-Palestinian families” The Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute. 7 (4):723-739. 2001
3. “Many ways of becoming a woman: the case of unmarried Israeli-Palestinian ‘girls’”
Ethnology 43 (1):1-18. 2004
4. "On the sexuality of unmarried women in the Palestinian community in Israel" Theory and
Criticism 25: 13-30 (Hebrew). 2005
5. "Postcolonial feminism, the politics of identification, and the liberal bargain" Gender &
Society 19 (5): 680-700. 2005
Reprinted in Cultural Diversity and Empowerment of Minorities. Eds. Majed Al-Haj and
Rosemarie Mielke. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. Pp: 173-196. 2007
6. “Feminine strength: Reflections on power and gender in Israeli-Palestinian culture”
Anthropological Quarterly 79 (3): 398-431. 2006
Reprinted in Generations, Locations, Identities: Contemporary Perspectives on Society
and Culture in Israel (a festschrift to S.N. Eisenstadt) Eds. Hannah Herzog, Tal Cokhavi
and Shimson Zenliker. Jerusalem: Van Leer. Pp: 369-393. 2007. (Hebrew)
7. "Cooperation and conflict in the zone of civil society; Arab-Jewish activism in Jaffa" Urban
Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 35 (1)
105-139, Spring. 2006
Reprinted in Mixed Cities/Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial
Dynamics and Gender Relations in Mixed Towns in Israel/Palestine. Eds. Dan
Monterescu and Dan Rabinowitz. Ashgate. Pp: 261-280. 2007
8.
“Masculine talk: On the use of masculine linguistic forms among Hebrew- and Arabicspeaking women in Israel Signs 32(2): 405-430 Winter. 2007
9. “How can I feel for others when I myself am beaten'? The impact of the armed conflict on
women in Israel" (Dalia Sachs, Amalia Sa'ar and Sarai Aharoni), Sex Roles 57 (7-8):593–
606. 2007
10. “Contradictory location: assessing the position of Palestinian women citizens of Israel"
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 3 (3), 45-74. 2007
11. “Maneuvering between state, nation, and tradition: Israeli-Palestinian women make creative
applications of polygyny", Journal of Anthropological Research, 63 (4): 515-535. 2007
12. “Masculinity in crisis: The case of Palestinians in Israel" (with Taghreed Yahia-Younis)
British Journal of Middle East Studies 35 (3): 305–323. 2008
13. “Intense engagement: Young women in Israel forging feminist subjectivities" (with Sigal
Gooldin), Women Studies International Forum 32(3): 179-188. 2009
14. “Welfare ‘single moms’ in Israel re-adapting the gender contract" The Sociological
Quarterly, 50: 451-474. 2009
15. “Women’s micro-entrepreneurship as a track for social mobility, some paradoxical aspects”
Israeli Sociology, 11 (1) (Hebrew) 2010.
16. “Between a gender and a feminist analysis: the case of security studies in Israel" (Sa'ar
Amalia, Dalia Sachs and Sarai Aharoni) International Sociology 26 (1): 50-73. 2011
17. “Economic empowerment of low-income women: a mediating concept in competing
definitions of reality” Theory and Criticism 42: 151-174. 2014 (Hebrew)
18. “Private education: anti-consumerism and class in the age of capitalism” Israeli Sociology
(With Amit Rottman, in Hebrew) 15 (2): 262-281. 2014
BOOK CHAPTERS
1. “Doing market’ across national and gender divides: Consumption patterns of Israeli
Palestinians." Consumption and Market Society in Israel, pp, 123-140. Eds. Yoram Carmeli
and Kalman Applbaum. Oxford: Berg Publication. (Refereed volume) 2004
2. “Gender and sexual relations in the the Palestinian Society in Israel". The Arab Society in
Israel (Unit number 6). eds., Ilana Kaufman and Mustafa Kabha. Ra'anana: The Open
University. (Hebrew) (Refereed volume. )2007
3. “Holistic, community-oriented empowerment: the case of women in recently recognized
villages in Galilee” in Johayna Hossein (ed.), Kuluna Hikaya: Action Oriented Research on
Al-Tufula Center’s Empowerment Approach to Engaging Women in Social Change.
Nazareth: Al-Tufula Center (Arabic). Forthcoming
OTHER SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Research Reports
2005 The influence of the armed Israeli-Palestinian conflict on women in Israel (with Dalia
Sachs and Sarai Aharoni) Research report presented to the 49th meeting of the CSW (Beijing
+10). The UN, New-York- March
2007 'A Business of One's Own', an evaluation report of a micro-enterprise project among lowincome women in Israel. May. (Research report, Hebrew)
2009. ‘When I arrived at the university something in me started to dance’: making higher
education accessible to older Druze women (Research report, Hebrew)
2011 Palestinian-Israeli women's employment: The mystery of their absence and the way to
their integration into the formal labor force. July. (Research report, Hebrew)
Encyclopedia Entry
2005. "Women, gender and feminist movements: Israel" Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic
Cultures.
Book Reviews
1989 Anthropology and the Palestinians, by Dan Rabinowitz, Ra'anana: Beit Berl. Gama'a 4:
135-143. (Hebrew)
2003 Women and the politics of military confrontation; Palestinian and Israeli gendered
narratives of dislocation eds. Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin. New York and Oxford: Berghahn
Books. 2002. Israeli Sociology Vol. 5 (2): 472-474. (Hebrew)
2004 The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement 1920-1948, by
Ellen L. Fleischmann. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. The
Middle East Journal. 58 (1): 143-144.
2006 Comparing Cultures: Dimensions of Culture in a Comparative Perspective eds. Henk
Vinken, Joseph Soeters, and Peter Ester, Leiden and Boston: Brill. International Sociology
Review of Books 21 (3): 403-405.
2007 Women in the South; Space, Periphery, and Gender eds. H. Dahan-Kalev, N. Yanay, and
N. Berkovitz. Hargol Publishing. Israeli Sociology 8 (2): 173-175. (Hebrew)
2008 Resistance, repression, and gender politics in occupied Palestine and Jordan, by Frances
S. Hasso, Syracuse University Press.
British Journal of Middle East Studies 35 (1): 129-131.
2011. Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender among Palestinians in Israel. Edited by Rhoda
Ann Kanaaneh and Isis Nusair. State University of New York Press 2010. Review of Middle
East Studies. 45 (1): 113-115.
2012 Exposed to dialogue: encounters between Jews and Arabs in Israel, by Maya Kahanoff,
Ben-Gurion University Press. Israeli Sociology 13(2): 219-221. (Hebrew)
forthcoming Housewives of Japan, by Ofra Godstein-Gidoni, Palgrave Macmillan Israeli
Sociology (Hebrew)
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
“Caught between their Culture and a Hard Structure: Labor-Force Participation of Palestinian-Israeli
Women” (Journal article, re-submitted June 2014)
“Embedded Autonomy: Bedouin Women in Galilee Paving the Road to Transition” (journal article,
submitted January 2014)
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER PREPARATION
The Quest for Inclusion: Economic Citizenship of Low-Income Women (book manuscript)
“How Ready are Young Women to Call Themselves ‘Feminist’? The Case of Jewish and Palestinian
Students in Israel” (journal article, with Dalit Simchai and Alisa Lewin)