Chava Frankfort-Nachmias is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Erella Shadmi is Senior Lecturer of Criminology and Head of the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Beit Berl College.

• Acknowledgments 1. Knowing Lesbians, Lesbian Knowing: IntroductionChava Frankfort-Nachmias and Erella Shadmi Part I: Experience 2. Lesbians in Israel: A Legal PerspectiveIra Hadar 3. The Story of ClaF: The Community of Lesbian FeministsHaya Shalom 4. To Re-Construct the Community: Lesbians on a KibbutzNurit Barkai 5. Emigration: The Case of the Israeli LesbianChava Frankfort-Nachmias 6. Orthodox Lesbians: Not a Contradiction in TermsDevorah Esther Part II: Culture and Identity 7. Toward a History of Gay Bars in Israel: A MemoirAmalia Ziv 8. The Presentation of Self of Young Israeli Lesbians: A Discourse on Split IdentityDiana Luzzatto 9. Crafting Multilayered Identities in IsraelPnina Motzafi-Haller 10. From "Sexless in Russia" to "Proud Israeli Lesbian": Immigration Stories of Coming OutAdi Kuntsman Part III: Politics 11. Lesbians in the Women's Peace MovementSu Schachter 12. Alliance and Denial: Lesbian Protest in Women in BlackHannah Safran 13. A Rainbow KufiyyaMickey M Part IV: Social Construction 14. Israeli Lesbians, National Identity, and MotherhoodRuti Kadish 15. The Construction of Lesbianism as Nonissue in IsraelErella Shadmi Glossary List of Contributors Index

Chava Frankfort-Nachmias is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Erella Shadmi is Senior Lecturer of Criminology and Head of the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Beit Berl College.

• Acknowledgments 1. Knowing Lesbians, Lesbian Knowing: IntroductionChava Frankfort-Nachmias and Erella Shadmi Part I: Experience 2. Lesbians in Israel: A Legal PerspectiveIra Hadar 3. The Story of ClaF: The Community of Lesbian FeministsHaya Shalom 4. To Re-Construct the Community: Lesbians on a KibbutzNurit Barkai 5. Emigration: The Case of the Israeli LesbianChava Frankfort-Nachmias 6. Orthodox Lesbians: Not a Contradiction in TermsDevorah Esther Part II: Culture and Identity 7. Toward a History of Gay Bars in Israel: A MemoirAmalia Ziv 8. The Presentation of Self of Young Israeli Lesbians: A Discourse on Split IdentityDiana Luzzatto 9. Crafting Multilayered Identities in IsraelPnina Motzafi-Haller 10. From "Sexless in Russia" to "Proud Israeli Lesbian": Immigration Stories of Coming OutAdi Kuntsman Part III: Politics 11. Lesbians in the Women's Peace MovementSu Schachter 12. Alliance and Denial: Lesbian Protest in Women in BlackHannah Safran 13. A Rainbow KufiyyaMickey M Part IV: Social Construction 14. Israeli Lesbians, National Identity, and MotherhoodRuti Kadish 15. The Construction of Lesbianism as Nonissue in IsraelErella Shadmi Glossary List of Contributors Index

Chava Frankfort-Nachmias is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Erella Shadmi is Senior Lecturer of Criminology and Head of the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Beit Berl College.

• Acknowledgments 1. Knowing Lesbians, Lesbian Knowing: IntroductionChava Frankfort-Nachmias and Erella Shadmi Part I: Experience 2. Lesbians in Israel: A Legal PerspectiveIra Hadar 3. The Story of ClaF: The Community of Lesbian FeministsHaya Shalom 4. To Re-Construct the Community: Lesbians on a KibbutzNurit Barkai 5. Emigration: The Case of the Israeli LesbianChava Frankfort-Nachmias 6. Orthodox Lesbians: Not a Contradiction in TermsDevorah Esther Part II: Culture and Identity 7. Toward a History of Gay Bars in Israel: A MemoirAmalia Ziv 8. The Presentation of Self of Young Israeli Lesbians: A Discourse on Split IdentityDiana Luzzatto 9. Crafting Multilayered Identities in IsraelPnina Motzafi-Haller 10. From "Sexless in Russia" to "Proud Israeli Lesbian": Immigration Stories of Coming OutAdi Kuntsman Part III: Politics 11. Lesbians in the Women's Peace MovementSu Schachter 12. Alliance and Denial: Lesbian Protest in Women in BlackHannah Safran 13. A Rainbow KufiyyaMickey M Part IV: Social Construction 14. Israeli Lesbians, National Identity, and MotherhoodRuti Kadish 15. The Construction of Lesbianism as Nonissue in IsraelErella Shadmi Glossary List of Contributors Index