abstract:In Israel, Middle Eastern women are read as more "traditional" than European women. Yet life-story interviews conducted for this article reveal that elderly Polish Jewish women self-present as traditionally feminine—emphasizing home-centeredness, passivity, modesty, self-sacrifice, and delicateness—in ways a matched group of Iraqis do not. The article shows that these presentations are a by-product of how Poles assert Western identity. They claim Westernness by emphasizing continuity between their current behaviors and ideals and those they were taught in upper-class 1930s Europe, including feminine ideals. They see these behaviors as European and are inattentive to potential links with traditionalism. The discussion focuses on this finding in light of arguments that for women classified as Western, being on the "liberated" side of Orientalist contrasts can render gender invisible, enabling reproduction of gender inequality.

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不经意的传统主义

摘要：在以色列，中东女性被认为比欧洲女性更“传统”。然而，为这篇文章进行的生活故事采访显示，老年波兰犹太妇女自我呈现为传统的女性——强调以家庭为中心、被动、谦虚、自我牺牲和精致——而伊拉克人则不然。文章表明，这些介绍是波兰人如何维护西方身份的副产品。他们通过强调他们当前的行为和理想与他们在 1930 年代欧洲上流社会（包括女性理想）所教的行为和理想之间的连续性来声称西方性。他们将这些行为视为欧洲人的行为，并且不注意与传统主义的潜在联系。讨论的重点是这一发现，因为对于被归类为西方的女性而言，“