Working from the premise that gender and violence are cyclically related, masculinities' connection to power and violence are frequently simplistically assumed. Yet, amid ongoing colonisation and military occupation, there are other more complex dynamics simultaneously at play across Israel and Palestine. In this book, Chloe Skinner explores this, untangling the gendered politics of settler colonialism to shed specific light on the ways in which masculinities shift and morph in this context of colonial violence. Oscillating between analysis of Israeli militarism and military occupation in Palestine, each chapter examines the constitutive performance and negotiation of masculinised ideals across these colonial hierarchies. Masculinities are thus analysed across these settings in connection, rather than in isolation - illustrating that gendered identities, practices, and performances here are intertwined by that which simultaneously divides and separates them: the apartheid politics of the Israeli state.

Explores the gendered dynamics of settler colonialism through a comparative focus on masculinities across Israel and Palestine.

About the Author
Chloe Skinner is a post-doctoral researcher in the Power and Popular Politics Cluster at Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield.


Book Information
ISBN 9781009375214
Author Chloe Skinner
Format Hardback
Page Count 202
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press