Simona Sharoni

Faculty have played an important role in the ongoing efforts to confront gender-based violence on college campuses, as teachers, researchers, advocates, and policy advisors. Nevertheless, few institutions have welcomed faculty activism on this issue, especially when it took the form of vocal support for survivor-led efforts to transform campus poli...

The relationship between militarism and gender-based violence is rooted in the gendered socialization of boys and girls. The militarization of masculinities and femininities begins at a young age, reinforcing a gendered division of power and labor and legitimizing the use of political violence. In conflict zones, political violence is often accompa...

This review was published in International Feminist Journal of Politics [© 2015 Taylor & Francis] and the definite version is available at: https://www.google.com/search?q=10.1080%2F14616742.2015.1088226&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b The article website is at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616742.2015.1088226?needAccess=true

A journey into women’s studies, project started in 2009 and it wanted to capture the stories and journeys of women studies in different parts of the world. It was felt that it was high time that the story of the next generation of feminists be told so that the future generations would know the struggles and efforts that went into making women’s stu...

The feminist slogan “The personal is political” spoke to me from the very first moment I heard it, on International Women’s Day in 1990 in Fairfax, Virginia. As a doctoral student at George Mason University, I chose to attend a special event, organized by the women’s studies program to celebrate March 8, International Women’s Day. The featured spea...

A careful examination of women's involvement in peacebuilding and conflict transformation in Israel and Palestine provides a unique perspective on key turning points in the history of the conflict in the past two and one-half decades, since the first Palestinian uprising, knows as the Intifada. The article analyzes the changes in modes of organizin...

This forum reconstructs a roundtable discussion about the academic responsibilities of International Relations professors with respect to their undergraduate students. Specifically, participants discuss the proper pedagogical role of professors' personal political beliefs and the best ways to encourage undergraduate students to engage political ide...

This article examines critically the relationship between men, dominant conceptions of masculinity, and the processes and practices that are at play as masculinities become militarized and deployed to fight a war. Following a critical review of feminist and non-feminist literature on militarization and masculinities, the article focuses on the pros...

Manipulation of the tragedy of 9/11 by both the U.S. government and the mainstream media has left its mark on academia. An unprecedented number of students have sought to enroll in Middle Eastern studies as well as peace and conflict studies courses, while scholars critical of U.S. foreign policy have come under attack from outside academia, especi...

Israel's May 1999 elections featured three newly retired generals, including Ehud Barak, a former chief of staff who was elected prime minister. There was consensus among most political analysts that Barak was elected primarily because of his military background. Moreover, a wellorchestrated public-relations campaign presented Barak as the most lik...

Zionism as an ideology and a movement constructed very particular notions of femininity, masculinity and gender relations. Through persistent references to the survival of Israel and the Jewish people as a whole, the assertion of an aggressive and highly militarized masculinity was justified by the need to end a history of weakness, suffering and p...

This article examines whether peace is more conducive to gender equality than overt conflict. Towards this end, it highlights transformations in gender identities, roles, and relationships during the early years of the intifada in Israel/Palestine and the troubles in the North of Ireland as well as during the aftermath of the Oslo Accords and the G...

Immediately after the Oslo Accord was signed, the book The New Middle East was published. In it, Israeli foreign minister, Shimon Peres, outlines his vision for the region, and the ways to turn it into reality. In the new Middle East, Peres asserts, “economics will carry more weight than politics in international relations.” Surveying contemporary...

Simona Sharoni, Homefront as Battlefield : Gender, Military Occupation and Violence against Women The processes of military manpower acquisition are gendered processes. Military forces past and present have not been able to get, keep and reproduce the sorts of soldiers they imagine they need without drawing on ideological beliefs concerning the dif...