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Articles in Refereed Journals
 
Sa'ar, Amalia. 1998. “Carefully on the margins: Christian-Palestinians in Haifa between nation and state.” American Ethnologist. Vol. 25(2): 214-239.
carefully on the margins - pdf file
 
Sa'ar, Amalia. 2001. “Lonely in your firm grip: women in Israeli-Palestinian families” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 7(4):723-739.
 
Sa'ar, Amalia. 2004. “Many ways of becoming a woman: the case of unmarried Israeli-Palestinian ‘girls’” Ethnology 43 (1):1-18.
 
Sa'ar, Amalia. 2005. "Postcolonial feminism, the politics of identification, and the liberal bargain" Gender & Society 19 (5): 680-700.
® Reprinted in Cultural Diversity and Empowerment of Minorities. Eds. Majed Al-Haj    and Rosemarie Mielke. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. Pp: 173-196. 2007
 
Sa'ar, Amalia. 2005. "On the sexuality of unmarried women in the Palestinian community in Israel" Theory and Criticism 25: 13-30 (Hebrew)
unmarried-Hebrew.pdf
 
Sa'ar, Amalia. 2006. "Cooperation and conflict in the zone of civil society; Arab-Jewish activism in Jaffa Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 35 (1) 105-139, Spring.
®     Reprinted in Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities, eds., Daniel Monterescu and Dan Rabinowitz, pp: 261-280, Ashgate. 2007.
 
Sa'ar, Amalia. 2006. "Feminine strength: Reflections on power and gender in Israeli-Palestinian culture" Anthropological Quarterly, Volume 79 (3): 397-431. Fall.
Feminine strength
®     Reprinted, in Hebrew, in:
"קווייה" על נשים חזקות בחברה הפלסטינית בישראל" דורות, מרחבים, זהויות: מבטים עכשוויים על חברה ותרבות בישראל (אסופת מאמרים לכבוד שמואל נח אייזנשטדט במלאת לו 80 שנה) עורכות: חנה הרצוג, טל כוכבי, שמשון צלניקר. ירושלים: מכון ון-ליר. ע' 369-393. 2007.


Sa'ar, Amalia. 2007. "Masculine talk: On the use of masculine linguistic forms among Hebrew- and Arabic-speaking women in Israel" Signs 32 (2): 405-429. Winter.
 
Sa'ar, Amalia. 2007. "Contradictory location: assessing the position of Palestinian women citizens of Israel" Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 3 (3), 45-74.
 
Sachs, Dalia, Amalia Sa'ar, and Sarai Aharoni. 2007. "How can I feel for others when I myself am beaten'? The impact of the armed conflict on women in Israel", Sex Roles 57 (7-8): 593-606 
 
Sa'ar, Amalia. 2007. "Maneuvering between state, nation, and tradition: Israeli-Palestinian women make creative applications of polygyny" Journal of Anthropological Research Vol. 63 (4), Winter pp: 515-535. 
polygyny-sa'ar.pdf

 
Sa'ar, Amalia and Taghreed Yahya-Younis. 2008. "Masculinity in crisis: The case of Palestinians in Israel" British Journal of Middle East Studies 35(3), 305-323.
 
  
 
Sa'ar, Amalia. 2009. "Welfare 'single moms' in Israel: re-adapting the gender contract. The Sociological Quarterly  50: 451-474.
Single Moms-TSQ.pdf
 
 
Sa'ar, Amalia and Sigal Gooldin. 2009. "Intense engagement: Young women in Israel forging feminist subjectivities" Women's Studies International Forum 32 (3): 179-188
Sa'ar, Amalia. 2010. "Women's micro-entrepreneurship as a track for social mobility, some paradoxical aspects" Israeli Sociology  11 (2):441-462 (in Hebrew)
gender contract-Hebrew.pdf


Sa'ar, Amalia, Dalia Sachs and Sarai Aharoni. 2011. "Between a gender and a feminist analysis: The case of security studies in Israel" International Sociology 26 (1): 50-73.

Gender Femist Analysis.pdf
 
 
 
Chapters in Books
 
2004. "’Doing market’ across national and gender divides: Consumption patterns of Israeli Palestinians." Consumption and market society in Israel, pp, 123-140. Eds. Yoram Carmeli and Kalman Applbaum. Oxford: Berg Publication.
 
 
 
 
 
2007. "Gender in the Palestinian Society in Israel – Selected Issues". Unit number 6 in The Arab Society in Israel. Eds. Ilana Kaufman and Mustafa Kabha. Ra'anana: The Open University. (Hebrew)
 
2007. "מגדר וחברה בחברה הפלסטינית בישראל - סוגיות נבחרות" יחידה 6 בתוך החברה הערבית בישראל. עורכות, אילנה קופמן ומוצטפא כבהא, רעננה: האוניברסיטה הפתוחה.
 
 
 
Ph.D. Dissertation
 
May 2000. ‘Girls’ and ‘women’: femininity and social adulthood among unmarried Israeli-Palestinian women. Department of Anthropology, Boston University.
Dissertation advisor: Professor Charles T. Lindholm. 350 p.
 
 
Other Scientific Publications
 
Research Reports
 
Palestinian-Israeli women's employment: The mystery of their absence and the way to their integration into the formal work force.
Research invited by a private philanthropic foundation. July 2011
ATIDA-FINAL EPORT.pdf

The influence of the armed Israeli-Palestinian conflict on women in Israel (with Dalia Sachs and Sarai Aharoni)
Report presented to the 49th meeting of the CSW (Beijing +10). The UN, New-York- March 2005
 
"A business of one's own", an evaluation research on a micro-enterprise project by Economic Empowerment for Women
Jerusalem: Israel's National Insurance Institute, May 2007 (Hebrew)
 "עסק משלך", מחקר הערכה על פרוייקט יזמות זעירה של העמותה להעצמה כלכלית לנשים
ירושלים: המוסד לביטוח לאומי, הקרן למפעלים מיוחדים. מאי 2007
 
Palestinian-Israeli women's employment: the mystery of thier absence and the way to their integration into the formal workforce, July 2011 

נשים פלסטיניות בישראל: חידת היעדרותן וסיכויי השתלבותן בכוח העבודה הרשמי , יולי 2011
  
Articles in Conference Proceedings
   
"UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Relevance to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; an Israeli Viewpoint" In Where are all the Women? UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Gender Perspectives of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Eds. Sarai Aharoni and Rula Deeb, pp. 59-63. Haifa: Isha L-Isha – Haifa Feminist Center / Kayan – Feminist Organization. 2005
 
 
Encyclopedia Entry
 
"Women, gender and feminist movements: Israel" Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures. 2005
 
 
Book Reviews
 
Resistance, repression, and gender politics in occupied Palestine and Jordan, by Frances S. Hasso, Syracuse University Press.
British Journal of Middle East Studies 35(1):129-131, 2008
 
Women in the South; Space, Periphery, and Gender eds. H. Dahan-Kalev, N. Yanay, and N. Berkovitz. Hargol Publishing (Hebrew)
In Israeli Sociology 8 (2): 173-175, 2007
 
Comparing Cultures: Dimensions of Culture in a Comparative Perspective eds. Henk Vinken, Joseph Soeters, and Peter Ester, Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2004.
International Sociology Review of Books 21 (3): 403-405, 2006.
 
The Nation and Its "New" Woman: The Palestinian Women's Movement 1920-1948, by Ellen L. Fleischmann. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.
In The Middle East Journal. January 2004.
 
Women and the politics of military confrontation; Palestinian and Israeli gendered narratives of dislocation. Eds. Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2002.
In Israeli Sociology Vol. 5 (2): 472-474. 2003 (Hebrew)
 
Anthropology and the Palestinians, by Dan Rabinowitz, Ra'anana: Beit Berl.
In Gama'a 4: 135-143. 1989 (Hebrew)
 
 
 
Manuscripts currently under review in refereed journals
 
"Palestinian-Israeli women workers seeking civic inclusion"
 
 
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