SRG Dissertation Fellow
2004-05
Jessica P. Weinberg is
a Ph.D. candidate in the Joint Program in Anthropology and Linguistics
at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation examines the ways in
which the women's peace movement in Israel is linguistically and discursively
constructed from within, by the Palestinian and Jewish activists who
participate in the movement, and the ways in which activists both resist
and participate in national and transnational ideologies and practices
of feminism, mobilization for peace, and Arabic and Hebrew language
use. She elaborates the activists' analyses of the ways in which discourses
of gender, sexuality, race, and nation work together in Israeli society
and in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and she interrogates the relationship
between those analyses and the structures and tropes of global feminism.
Jessica's scholarship is informed by her own commitment to peace activism
in alliance with Palestinian activists and with other Jewish activists.