The military and militarism in Israeli society / edited by Edna Lomsky-Feder and E. Ben-Ari.

Introduction: cultural constructions of war and the military in Israel /Eyal Ben-Ari and Edna Lomsky-Feder -- Wars as catalysts of political and cultural change / Myron J. Aronoff -- The Masada mythical narrative and the Israeli army / Nachman Ben-Yehuda -- The Independence Day military parade: a political history of a patriotic ritual / Maoz Azaryahu -- War, heroism, and public representations: the case of a museum of "coexistence" in Jerusalem / Efrat Ben-Zeév and Eyal Ben-Ari -- Army and war: collective narratives of early childhood in contemporary Israel / Mirta Furman -- Masks and soldiering: the Israeli Army and the Palestinian uprising / Eyal Ben-Ari -- Militarism and the construction of the life-worlds of Israeli males: the case of the reserve system / Sara Helman -- Gender, body, and the national subject: Israeli women's poetry in the War of Independence / Hannan Hever -- Filming national identity: war and woman in Israeli cinema / Anat Zanger -- Engendering the Gulf War: Israeli nurses and the disc