Fictions of Gender: Women, Femininity, and the Zionist Imagination

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, gender scholars and activists have asked whether a reconcilliation between Zionism and feminism is possible in the current political landscape. Fictions of Gender explores the contemporary controversies surrounding both Zionism and feminism, and how they are prefigured in the experiences and legacies of early Zionist women.

Drawing on extensive archival research and the rarely studied corpus of published and unpublished creative, biographic, and essayistic...