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The Chosen Body: The Politics of the Body in Israeli Society (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differen)
Meira Weiss

Stanford University Press, 2002

This book examines how the social and cultural paradigms of contemporary Israel are articulated through the body. To construct a panoramic view of how the Israeli body is chosen, regulated, cared for, and ultimately made perfect, the author draws upon some twenty years of ethnographic research in Israel in a range of subjects. These include premarital and prenatal screening, the regulation of the body and its imagery among appearance-impaired ...
  
  











  



  
Conditional Love: Parents' Attitudes Toward Handicapped Children
Meira Weiss

Bergin & Garvey, 1994

Questioning the myth of unconditional love between parents and children, this study examines the strength of the parental bond when children are born with physical defects. The author, a social scientist, studied parents' behavior toward 1,450 children born with defects in three hospitals in Israel, and then conducted follow-up studies over a period of six years with 200 families in their homes. One of the major recurring patterns of parental ...
  
  











  





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