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publications

BOOKS

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Dekel, T. (2013). Gendered – Art and feminist theory. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
[also published in Hebrew: Dekel, T. (2011). Gendered – Art and Feminist Theory, Tel Aviv: Kibbutz Meuhad Press.
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Dekel, T. (2016). Transnational identities – Women, art and migration in contemporary Israel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. [also published in Hebrew: Dekel, T. (2013). Women and Migration - Art and Gender in a Transnational Age, Tel Aviv: Resling Press.  click >

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Dekel, T., Yerday, E., Almo-Wexler, E., & Keshet S. (Eds.). (2017). The monk and the lion – Contemporary Ethiopian visual art in Israel. Tel Aviv: Achoti Press (bi-lingual: English and Hebrew).  click >

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Dekel, T. (2020). Women and old age - Gender and ageism as reflected in Israeli art. Ra'anana: Open University Press, IL. click

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Dekel, T. and Keshet, S. (2021) (Eds.). Creating change - Art and activism in Israel. Tel Aviv: Achoti Press

SELECTED  ARTICLES

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Dekel, T. (2004). Maternal desire: Mary Kelly's post-partum document, feminist art in the 1970s, Assaph – Studies in Art History, 9, 161-172.

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Dekel, T. (2007). Sex, race and gender – Contemporary women artists of color, the case of Kara Walker, Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, 31(2), 82-93.  click >

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Dekel, T. (2007). Center-Periphery Relations: Women's Art in Israel during the 1970s, the Case of Miriam Sharon, Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, 8(3), 1-22.  click >

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Dekel, T. (2007). Rediscovering feminism in Israeli art: New aspects of Pamela Levy's early work, Hagar – Studies in Culture, Polity and Identities, 7(2), 129-153.  click >

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Dekel, T. (2009). Body, Gender and Trans-nationalism: Art and Cultural Criticism in Changing Europe, SEN – Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 9(2), 175-197.  click >

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T. Dekel, T. (2009). Art and struggle: Ethiopian-Israeli women artists, The International Journal of the Arts in Society, 3(5), 43-52.  click >

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Dekel, T. (2011). From first-wave to third-wave feminist art in Israel: A quantum leap, Israel Studies Journal, 16(1), 149-178.

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Dekel, T., (2011). To (un)dress: Women, clothing and feminist ideology in modern art, The International Journal of the Arts in Society, 6(2), 171-188.

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Dekel, T., (2012). Feminist art hitting the shores of Israel: Three case studies in impossible times, Frontiers - A Journal of Women Studies, 33(2), 111-128.

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Dekel, T., (2014). At (art)work value: Gendered aspects of income and livelihood in the Israeli art field, Hagar – Studies in Culture, Polity and Identities, 11(2), 83-104.  click >

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Dekel, T., (2015). Subversive uses of perception: The case of Palestinian artist Anisa Ashkar, Signs – Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 40(2), 300-308.  click >

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Dekel, T., (2015). Breaking the pattern and creating new paths – Feminist Mizrahi women artists in Israel, Revista de História da Arte, 12, 93-105.  click >

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Dekel, T., (2016). In search of transnational Jewish art – Immigrant women artists from the Former Soviet Union in contemporary Israel, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 5(1), 109-130.

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Dekel, T., (2016). Welcome Home? Israeli-Ethiopian women artists and questions of citizenship and cultural belonging, Third Text – Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture, 29(4-5), 310-325.   click >

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Dekel, T. (2018). Gender and senses: The art of Anisa Ashkar, Tohu Magazine, Retrieved December 30, 2018 from click >

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Dekel, T. (2019). "Re-Reading the Hebrew Scriptures: Feminist Perspectives in Contemporary Artwork by Israeli Women". Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary E-Journal, 16(2)

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Dekel, T. (2021). "Transparent Substance in a Transnational Existence: Materiality, Migration, Memory, and Gender – The Case of Israeli Artist Alina Rom Cohen," Arts Journal 10(2) click >

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Dekel, T.  (2022). "On the very End of the Margins: Intersectional Identities of Old Lesbian and Transgender Women in Israel: A Study through Art", Gerontology & Geriatrics - Journal of Aging Studies, 49 (1-2) pp. 94-79.

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Dekel, T., (2022). "Black Masculinities and Jewish Identity: Ethiopian-Israeli Men in Contemporary Art," Religions 13(12). click >

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Dekel, T. and L. Elefant,  (2023). "The Role of Public Policy in Gender Inequality in the Arts in Israel," Israel Studies Review Journal 38(3): 125-146. click >

ARTICLES IN EDITED VOLUMES

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Dekel,T., (2006). Following Kathe Kollwitz: Gendered aspects in the work of Israeliartist Ruth Schloss, In C. Versar & G. Fishhof (Eds.), Pictorial languages and their meanings (pp. 323-338). Tel Aviv: The Tel Aviv University Press.

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Dekel, T., (2009). Connected vessels: Gender fluidity as reflected in Boaz Tal' work, In M. Omer (Ed.), Boaz Tal – Boazehava, a retrospective (pp. 115- 126). Tel Aviv: The Tel Aviv University Press.

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Dekel, T. and Elefant, L. (2020), "Feminist art activism in Israel", Ed. KatyDeepwell, Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms (pp. 255-265), Amsterdam: Valiz Press.

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Dekel, T. (2020), "Hyphenated: Transnational feminism in contemporary Israeli art, between Mizrahi and Arab identities", Eds. Ceren Opzinar and Mery Kelly, Under the Skin: Feminist Art from the Middle East and North Africa Today (pp. 41-54). Oxford and London: Oxford University Press.  

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Dekel, T. (2021). "Expressing Dissent, Leading the Change: Visual Activism of Israeli-Ethiopian Women Artists" Eds. Luiza Khlebnikova and Dmitry Maryasis, The Role of a Woman in Jewish World. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences. click >

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Dekel, T. (2021). "Be-Longing: Filipina women artists in Israel negotiating self, body, and place", Ed. Basia Sliwinska, Feminist Visual Activism and the Body. London and New York: Routledge.

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Dekel, T. (2022). "Private Trauma, Public Healing: The Art of Hannan Abu-Hussein", in: Iconic Works of Art by Feminist Activists: Mistress-Pieces, ed. Brenda Schmahmann (Routledge Press, 2022), 102-114

GUEST EDITOR OF SPECIAL VOLUMES IN JOURNALS

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Dekel, T. (ed.) (2018). Special issue:"Art, Gender and Feminisms in Israel", Gender - An Interdisciplinary Journal.

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Barromi-Perlman, E. Dekel, T. and Brhana-Lorand, D. (Eds.) (2021). Gender and Visual Literacy: Toward Gender-Sensitive Readings,  Journal of Visual Literacy Studies. 40 (3-4)

BOOK REVIEWS

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Dekel,T. (2014). Rachel S. Harris and R. Omer-Sherman (Eds.), War in Contemporary Israeli Art and Culture: Narratives of Dissent. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, Israel Studies Review, 29(1), 156-158.

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Dekel, T. (2014). Y. Zalmona, A Century of Israeli Art. London/Jerusalem: Lund Humphries/Israel Museum, Israel Studies Review, 29(1), 158-161.

MOOC - MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE

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Dekel, T. (2019). Art and Immigration to Israel (lesson 7, in: Feminist art and Jewish Identity click >

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