Keeping mum: The mediation of military conflict in the everyday mothering of middle-class Israeli Palestinian and Jewish women

Deborah Golden, Lauren Erdreich

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Abstract

The article examines how Israeli Palestinian and Jewish middle-class mothers mediate military conflict to young children, through silence and talk. This mediation is underpinned by dissonance between the mandate to protect children from the adult world and to ready them for it, and between the idea of children as individuals and conflict as collective engagement. The article explores the discourses and practices used for managing this twofold dissonance, including differences in the privilege of silence for Palestinian and Jewish mothers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)369-382
Number of pages14
JournalChildhood
Volume27
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2020

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Keywords

  • Israeli–Palestinian
  • middle class
  • military conflict
  • mothering
  • silence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

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