Dept. of Multidisciplinary Studies
and
the Women's and Gender Studies Graduate Program
University of Haifa
Publications
Journal Articles
2023. Halevi, Sharon. “Femininity, Science and Religion on Tour in Almira Phelps’ Caroline Westerley (1833).” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 23 (1) : 67-92.
2022. Halevi, Sharon. “An Autoethnography of the Artist as a Young Woman? Susanna Paine’s Roses and Thorns (1854),” Women’s Writing 29 (3): 428-227.
2020. Halevi, Sharon. “‘You feel embodied with the cataract’: American Girls, Landscape and National Identity in the Early Republic.” Studies in Travel Writing, 24(4): 318-334.
2020. Halevi, Sharon. ““We were very much surprised at their worship’: American Girls and Religious Tourism in the Early Republic, 1780-1835.” International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 8 (8): 70-78.
2020. Halevi, Sharon. “‘I’m just doing my job’: The First Lady and the Work of Political Mythmaking in Pablo Larraín’s Jackie (2016),” Women: A Cultural Review, 31 (3): 241-258.
2020. Halevi, Sharon. “In Sunshine and in the Shadows: Adolescent Girls and Thanatourism in the Early Republic.” Journal of Tourism History, 12 (1): 71-85.
2019. Halevi, Sharon. “‘Oh, how sweet was the scene:’
American Girls, Travel and the Hudson River Valley in the Early Republic.” Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, no. 61- “Ecrits et cris de la terre dans le monde Anglophone”: 183-194.
2013. Halevi, Sharon and Fruma Zachs. “‘The Little Kingdom over Which God Made You Queen’: The Gendered Reorganization of a ‘Modern’ Arab Home in Late Nineteenth-Century Beirut.” Hagar: Studies in Culture, Polity and Identities, 10 (2): 139-156.
2012. Halevi, Sharon. “‘A Dead Body Never Begs a Grave’: The Memoir of the Suffering Body as a Counter-Narrative of the American Revolution.” Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism, 34 (2): 83-100.
2012. Halevi, Sharon. “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t? Tzipi Livni and the Debate on a ‘Feminine’ Leadership Style in the Israeli Press.” Feminist Media Studies, 12 (3): 195-213.
2011. Halevi, Sharon and Orna Blumen. “The Site of Silence: The Economy of Non-memory in Israel.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 21 (2): 117-134.
2011. Halevi, Sharon and Blumen, Orna. “What a Difference a Place Makes: The Reflexive (Mis)management of a City’s Pasts.” Journal of Urban History, 37 (3): 384-399.
2010. Halevi, Sharon. “Double Exposures: Twin Sisters’ Autobiographies and the Experience of Twinship.” Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth, 3 (1): 87-104.
2009. Blumen, Orna, and Sharon Halevi. “Local Protest: Reflections of the Past in the Geographical Choices of Women in Black in Haifa.” Horizons in Geography, 73: 159-174. In Hebrew.
2009. Blumen, Orna and Sharon Halevi. “Staging Peace through a Gendered Demonstration: The Case of Women in Black in Haifa, Israel,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 99 (5): 977-985.
2009. Zachs, Fruma and Halevi, Sharon. “From Difā‘ al-Nisā’ to Mas’alat al-Nisā’ in Greater Syria: Readers and Writers Debate Women and their Rights, 1858-1900.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 44 (1): 615-634.
2009. Halevi, Sharon. “’A Variety of Domestic Misfortunes:’ Writing the Dysfunctional Self in the Early Republic.” Early American Literature, 44 (1): 95-119.
2008. Halevi, Sharon. “Thoughts on the ‘Economy’ of Ethnic Identities in Israel: The Case Bene Israel of India.” Narodna Tvorchist’ ta Etnografia, 4: 87-93.
2007. Halevi, Sharon and Zachs, Fruma. “Asma (1873): The Early Arabic Novel as a Social Compass.” Studies in the Novel, 39: 416-430.
2007. Halevi, Sharon. “The Emergence of Inuit Ethnic Identity in Canada.” Historia,19: 81-100. In Hebrew.
2005. Halevi, Sharon and Blumen, Orna. “‘I Carry Out Small Wars:’ The Impact of Women’s Studies on Palestinian and Jewish Students in Israel.” Journal of Gender Studies 14 (3): 233-250.
2005. Blumen, Orna and Halevi, Sharon. “Negotiating National Boundaries: Palestinian and Jewish Women’s Studies Students in Israel.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 12 (4): 505-538.
2005. Halevi, Sharon and Orna Blumen, “’Obviously They Were There, But…’: Men’s Presence in Women’s Studies – An Israeli Perspective.” Feminist Teacher, 15 (3): 203-212.
2004. Halevi, Sharon “Thoughts on Rashomon and Feminist Historical Writing.” Zmanim, 86: 10-21. In Hebrew.
2003. Halevi, Sharon. “She Who Must Be Obeyed: The Media and Political Spouses in Israel.” Women’s Studies in Communication, 26: 165-190.
2001. Halevi, Sharon. “Breaking the Stereotype: Gender and Dance.” Dance Today, 4: 12-21. In Hebrew
2000. Halevi, Sharon. “From Jezebel to Hillary: The First Lady in American History.” Zmanim, 71: 53-65. In Hebrew.
1999. Halevi, Sharon. “The Premier Body: Sarah Netanyahu, Nava Barak, and the Discourse of Womanhood in Israel.” Feminist Formations (formerly NWSA Journal), 11 (2): 72-87.
Books and Articles in Books
2015. Zachs, Fruma and Sharon Halevi, Gendering Culture in Greater Syria: Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period. London: I. B. Tauris.
2006. Amir, Delila, Dalit Baum, Yaffa Berlovitch, Ronna Brier, Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui, Deborah Greneman, Sharon Halevi, Dina Haruvi (Editors), Learning Feminism: FundamentalArticles and Documents in Feminist Thought. Tel-Aviv: Kibbutz Ha’meuchad Press. In Hebrew.
2006. Halevi, Sharon . The Other Daughters of the Revolution: Toward the “Hidden Transcript” of Gender in the Early Republic. Albany: SUNY Press, 2006.
2019. Halevi, Sharon. “Nothing Material Occurred”: Toward Rethinking the History of Early American Girlhood, 1760-1830,” in Hoda Mahamudi and Steven Mintz (eds.), Children and Globalization: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, pp 124-147. Routledge Studies in Cultural History. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
2015. Halevi, Sharon. “Mary Wollstonecraft- Life and Writings,” Introduction to the Hebrew translation of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of
Woman, pp. 7-31. Jerusalem: Shalem Publications. In Hebrew.
2009. Blumen, Orna and Sharon Halevi. “A Space for Change: Gender and Nationality in the Women’s Studies Classroom,” in Gender and Ethnicity in Higher Education, eds. Izhar Oplatka and Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz, pp. 209-223. Haifa: Pardes. In Hebrew
2006. Tovy, Tal and Halevi, Sharon. “America's First Cold War: The Implications of the Russo- Japanese War for the United States,” in The Impact of the Russo- Japanese War, ed. Rotem Kowner, pp. 137-152. N.Y.: Routledge/ Carzon Press.
2005. Halevi, Sharon. “When Do You Become a ‘Real Mizrachit’: ‘Mizrachiyut’ as a Political Identity,” in The Woman in the East and the Woman from the East, eds. Shaul Regev and Tovah Cohen, pp. 283-294. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press. In Hebrew.
2000. Halevi, Sharon “’Gone to the Indians’: White-Indians in Colonial North America, 1750-1800,” in Minorities, Strangers and Others: Marginal Groups in History, ed. Shulamith Volkov, pp. 205-220. Jerusalem: Merkaz Zalman Shazar. In Hebrew.