Chava Frankfort-Nachmias is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Erella Shadmi is Senior Lecturer of Criminology and Head of the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Beit Berl College.

Acknowledgments

1. Knowing Lesbians, Lesbian Knowing: Introduction
Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and Erella Shadmi

Part I: Experience

2. Lesbians in Israel: A Legal Perspective
Ira Hadar

3. The Story of ClaF: The Community of Lesbian Feminists
Haya Shalom

4. To Re-Construct the Community: Lesbians on a Kibbutz
Nurit Barkai

5. Emigration: The Case of the Israeli Lesbian
Chava Frankfort-Nachmias

6. Orthodox Lesbians: Not a Contradiction in Terms
Devorah Esther

Part II: Culture and Identity

7. Toward a History of Gay Bars in Israel: A Memoir
Amalia Ziv

8. The Presentation of Self of Young Israeli Lesbians: A Discourse on Split Identity
Diana Luzzatto

9. Crafting Multilayered Identities in Israel
Pnina Motzafi-Haller

10. From "Sexless in Russia" to "Proud Israeli Lesbian": Immigration Stories of Coming Out
Adi Kuntsman

Part III: Politics

11. Lesbians in the Women's Peace Movement
Su Schachter

12. Alliance and Denial: Lesbian Protest in Women in Black
Hannah Safran

13. A Rainbow Kufiyya
Mickey M

Part IV: Social Construction

14. Israeli Lesbians, National Identity, and Motherhood
Ruti Kadish

15. The Construction of Lesbianism as Nonissue in Israel
Erella Shadmi

Glossary

List of Contributors

Index