

@mastersthesis {7427,
	title = {A beach of their own: {The} origins of gender segregation in the {Israeli} public sphere},
	year = {2015},
	note = {3685927},
	school = {New York University},
	type = {phdPh.{D}.},
	address = {Ann Arbor},
	abstract = {My dissertation, "A Beach of Their Own: The Origins of Gender Segregation in the Israeli Public Sphere," examines how various ultra-Orthodox groups mobilized to influence the nature of the public sphere by fighting against mixed swimming and establishing gender segregated spaces for swimming, Controversies surrounding two bodies of water form the bulk of my dissertation: the successful 1966 establishment of the first gender segregated beach in Israel, located in Tel Aviv, and the 1958 construction of Jerusalem{\textquoteright}s first public swimming pool, which attracted religious Jewish condemnations because it was to feature mixed swimming. By comparing a failed fight against mixed swimming to a successful struggle to establish gender segregated swimming, I demonstrate that the most effective demands for gender segregation were framed in a civic and not religious discourse. Rather than arguing that gender segregated swimming was against Jewish values, the Orthodox community effectively argued that a lack of separate swimming violated their rights as tax payers who had the right to swim just as any other Israeli citizen. The mixed Jerusalem pool and the separate Tel Aviv beach mirror each other, providing a fertile ground for analysis of church-state relations, and how effective varying strategies of political mobilization are for the imposition of religious Jewish values on the public Israeli sphere. Calls for gender segregation are not recent creations but inherent in the fabric of Israeli culture, dating back to the nascent period of the state and even earlier to the near genesis of the Zionist project.},
	keywords = {0333:Middle Eastern history, 0453:Womens studies, 0751:Judaic studies, Beach, Gender segregation, Israel, Judaic studies, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern history, Orthodox jews, Pool, Social sciences, Womens studies},
	url = {http://search.proquest.com/docview/1666383656?accountid=14270},
	author = {Weiss, Shayna}
}
