A beach of their own: The creation of the gender-segregated beach in Tel Aviv |
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Authors: | Shayna Weiss |
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Institution: | Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel |
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Abstract: | This article examines the struggle for gender-segregated sea bathing in Tel Aviv from the first calls for gender segregation in the 1920s until 1966, when the city of Tel Aviv established a beach for men and women to swim separately. The most effective demands for gender segregation were framed in a civic and not religious discourse. Rather than claiming that gender-segregated swimming was against Jewish values, the ultra-Orthodox party Agudat Yisrael effectively argued that a lack of separate swimming violated their rights as taxpayers who had the right to bathe in the sea just as any other Israeli citizen. |
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Keywords: | Israel gender segregation Orthodox Tel Aviv beach |
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