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Some semi-public, exclusive male settings, most noticeably in the military, encourage the production of intimacy and desire. Yet, whereas in most instances this desire is displaced through humor and aggressive gestures, it becomes acknowledged and outright declared once associated with sites of heroic death. In his provocative study of interrelations between friendship in everyday life and national sentiments in Israel, the author follows selected stories of friendship ranging over early childhood, school, the workplace, and some unique war experiences. He explores the symbolism of friendship in rituals for the fallen soldiers, the commemoration of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the national infatuation with recovering bodies of missing soldiers. He concludes that the Israeli case offers an extreme instance of a much broader cultural phenomenon: declaring the friendship for the dead epitomizes the political "blood pact" between men, taking precedence over the traditional blood ties of kinship and heterosexual unions. The book underscores nationalism as a homosocial-based emotion of commemorative desire.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Men We Loved
• Subtitle: Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture
• Author: Danny Kaplan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 190
• EAN: 9781845451929
• ISBN: 1845451929
• ID: 05097761
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 386 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 176 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2006

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