Using a method of feminist historical ethnography, this article offers a microanalysis of US Sixth Fleet port calls, Rest and Recreation, and naval diplomacy in Haifa port over the period 1979–2001. The documentation of everyday civil–military encounters in the city supports the claim that in the Mediterranean context, American military expansion was welcomed both by political elites and by the general public. In this process, a politics of consensus was built through repeated activities, ceremonies and cultural frames, which stressed the shared values and importance of US–Israel relations. Although the negative effects of routine visits (vandalism, crime, prostitution and rape) were never publicly acknowledged on the national level, two mechanisms for containing and minimizing urban conflict were developed over time by local officials and entrepreneurs. First, a discursive framing of port calls as a form of militarized tourism enabled municipal authorities to carefully plan and control the daily routine of foreign servicemen, including their exchanges with local residents. Second, the urban decay of the Haifa port district enabled the creation of intimate and confined bars that catered for American soldiers far from residential areas. Narratives of and about women who were involved as agents in the daily maintenance of these spaces reveal that intimacy, sexuality and even motherly love were significant for the development of both mechanisms. Furthermore, local forms of militarized femininity, namely the care for male soldiers as a motherly duty and the trivialization of sexual violence, were expanded to include US servicemen, contributing to the normalization of foreign military presence.

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权力的亲密：性别与美国海军访问海法港 1979-2001

本文采用女性主义历史民族志的方法，对 1979 年至 2001 年期间美国第六舰队在海法港的停靠、休息和娱乐以及海军外交进行了微观分析。这座城市日常军民交锋的记录支持这样一种说法，即在地中海背景下，美国的军事扩张受到政治精英和公众的欢迎。在这个过程中，通过重复的活动、仪式和文化框架建立了共识政治，强调了美以关系的共同价值观和重要性。尽管常规探访（故意破坏、犯罪、卖淫和强奸）的负面影响从未在国家层面公开承认，随着时间的推移，地方官员和企业家建立了两种控制和尽量减少城市冲突的机制。首先，将港口停靠作为一种军事化旅游形式的话语框架使市政当局能够仔细计划和控制外国军人的日常生活，包括他们与当地居民的交流。其次，海法港区的城市衰败使人们能够创建私密而封闭的酒吧，为远离住宅区的美国士兵提供服务。关于作为代理人参与这些空间日常维护的女性的叙述表明，亲密、性甚至母爱对于这两种机制的发展都具有重要意义。此外，地方形式的军事化女性气质，