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Gendering Israel's Outsourcing

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This chapter examines welfare restructuring in the Israeli context and explores how a sense of entitlement that has been cultivated by an institutional context based on social citizenship is responding to the transition. I link this analysis to gender performativity as an emerging resource of the self, given the analyzed transition in service delivery. The chapter describes the changing ideological environment that accompanied the Israeli restructuring and the emergence of outsourcing. It takes Hajer’s discourse interaction approach for the local discursive order, to present a possible preliminary explanation for the process of disentitlement. Both the unionization discourse with its emphasis on material remuneration, and the professionalization discourse with its emphasis on skills, are shown to be subjugated by the historically dominant discourse organized around the premise that caring and service work does not require skill: to excel in these jobs, it is enough to be identified as a woman.

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Benjamin, O. (2016). Back to Doing Gender?. In: Gendering Israel's Outsourcing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40727-2_3

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