PUBLICATIONS

Books

Journal Articles

Sabbah-Karkabi, Maha., Amalia Sa'ar and Sami Miaari. "Early Retirement Under Gender and Ethnic Marginalization: Evidence from Palestinian-Arab Women in Israel." Hawwa (forthcoming)

Sa’ar, Amalia. 2025. “Genocide and abjection” Theory and Criticism 62: 205-209 (Hebrew)

Aharoni, Sarai B. and Amalia Sa'ar. 2025. "Feminist Vernacular Security Expertise and its

Aftermath: A Dialogue During War" SecurityDialogue  (online)

Bruker, Guy and Amalia Sa'ar. 2025. "Our Rabbi is a Refuge: Fragile Masculinity and Overcoming Obstacles During the Pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine" Israeli Sociology (Hebrew)

Simchai, Dalit and Amalia sa’ar.. All her glory: Modest Fashion and the Cosmopolitan Condition" Journal of Contemporary

Ethnography. Online first 2025

Sa'ar, Amalia. December 2024. "Emotionalizing the political" Hazman Haze (Hebrew)

Sa’ar, Amalia and Shihab Idrees. 2024 “Daffawi: Self-Orientalism and identity work among Palestinians in Israel” Identities.

Published online 2024

Sa'ar Amalia, Areen Hawari, and Noor Falah. 2024 "Breadwinning is my hustand’s responsibility: working Muslim women using the Quran to adjust the patriarchal gender script" Israeli Sociology. (Hebrew).

Bruker Guy and Amalia Sa'ar. 2024. "Caring masculinity among Jewish pilgrims to Uman, Ukraine, who travel with their young sons." Israel. 33:

71-96. (Hebrew)

Amit Rottman and Amalia Sa'ar. "Anti-consumerism and class distinction in a private preschool" Current Sociology.

72(3): 501-518. 2024

Hebrew version published in Israeli Sociology 15 (2): 262-281. 2014.  

Dalit Simchai and Amalia Sa'ar. "Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind: an Israeli perspective" Current Sociology 71 (1): 114-132. 2023

Hebrew version published Megamot 55 (2): 121-141. 2020. 

Sa'ar, Amalia. "Economic citizenship at the intersection of nation, class and gender: The case of Palestinian women in Israel" Current Anthropology. 64  (1): 104-122. 2023

Aharoni, Sarai B., Amalia Sa'ar and Alisa Lewin. "Security as Care: Communitarianism, Social Reproduction and Gender in Southern Israel" Feminist Theory. 23 (4): 444-466. 2022 

Sa’ar, Amalia, Sarai Aharoni, and Alisa Lewin. “Emotionalizing national security, depoliticizing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Emotions and Society. 3 (1): 55-71. 2021

Aharoni, Sarai, Alisa Lewin and Amalia Sa’ar.  “Gender/nationality intersections in attitudes towards gun carry among Israeli citizens” Sociological Perspectives. 65 (1): 133-153. 2021

Sa'ar, Amalia. "Culturism: dilemmas of cultural sensitivity in majority-minority relations" Ma'asei Mishpat 11: 119-140. 2020. (Hebrew).

Sa'ar, Amalia. "Women Under and Against the Occupation: Feminist Perspectives" Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. 15 (3): 377-382. 2019

Bruker, Guy and Amalia Sa’ar. “Yearning for stable masculinity: Israeli sex tourist in Thailand” Israeli Sociology. (Hebrew) 20 (1): 50-73. 2019  

Amalia Sa'ar. Sarai Aharoni and Alisa Lewin. "Fencing In and Out: Israel's Separation Wall and the Whitewashing of State Violence" Review of International American Studies 11 (1): 113-134. 2018.

Mazzawi, Nisreen and Amalia Sa'ar. "The Hawakir of Nazareth: The History and Contemporary Face of a Cultural Ecological Institution" with Nisreen Mazzawi . International Journal of Middle East Studies 50: 537-556. 2018.

Nasser, Kareem, Dalia Sachs and Amalia Sa’ar. “A necessary evil: Residential placement of people with Intellectual Disability among the Palestinian minority in Israel.“ Research in Developmental Disabilities 60: 115-124. 2017

Sa’ar, Amalia. “The Gender Contract under Neoliberalism: Palestinian Israeli Women's Labor Force Participation” Feminist Economics 23 (1): 54-76. 2017

Agmon, Maayan, Amalia Sa’ar and Tal Araten-Bergman “The Person in the Disabled Body: Experiences of Young Israelis with Disability” International Journal for Equity in Health 15: 147-157. 2016

Sa’ar, Amalia, Alisa Lewin and Dalit Simchai. Feminist identifications across the ethno-national divide Jewish and Palestinian students in Israel” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40 (6): 1026-1045. 2017

Selected for inclusion in Routledge Activism! Voices for Change collection 2016

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Emotional Performance as Work Skill: Low-Income Women in Israel Learning to Talk the Talk” Ethos 44 (2): 171-185. 2016 

Kareem Nasser, Dalia Sachs and Amalia Sa’ar “Family involvement in residential institutions: meanings and challenges” The Israeli Society of Occupational Therapy Journal 2015 (Hebrew).

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Economic empowerment of low-income women: A mediating concept in competing definitions of reality” Theory and Criticism 42: 151-174. 2014 (Hebrew) 

Sa’ar, Amalia, Dalia Sachs and Sarai Aharoni. “Between a gender and a feminist analysis: The case of security studies in Israel" International Sociology 26 (1): 50-73. 2011. 

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Women’s micro-entrepreneurship as a track for social mobility, some paradoxical aspects” Israeli Sociology, 11 (1) (Hebrew) 2010.

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Low-income ‘single moms’ in Israel re-adapting the gender contract" Sociological Quarterly, 50: 451-474. 2009

Sa’ar Amalia and Sigal Gooldin. “Intense engagement: Young women in Israel forging feminist subjectivities," Women's Studies 

International Forum 32(3): 179-188. 2009.

Sa’ar Amalia and Taghreed Yahia-Younis. “Masculinity in crisis: The case of Palestinians in Israel" British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 35 (3): 305–323. 2008. 

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Maneuvering between state, nation, and tradition: Israeli-Palestinian women make creative applications of polygyny", Journal of Anthropological Research, 63 (4): 515-535. 2007 

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Contradictory location: assessing the position of Palestinian women citizens of Israel" Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 3 (3), 45-74. 2007

Dalia Sachs, Amalia Sa'ar and Sarai Aharoni “How can I feel for others when I myself am beaten'? The impact of the armed conflict on women in Israel", Sex Roles 57 (7-8):593–606. 2007

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Masculine talk: On the use of masculine linguistic forms among Hebrew- and Arabic-speaking women in Israel Signs 32(2): 405-430 Winter. 2007

Sa’ar, Amalia. "Cooperation and conflict in the zone of civil society: Arab-Jewish activism in Jaffa" Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 35 (1) 105-139, Spring. 2006

Appeared also in Mixed Cities/Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics and Gender Relations in Mixed Towns in Israel/Palestine. Eds. Dan Monterescu and Dan Rabinowitz. Ashgate. Pp: 261-280. 2007

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Feminine strength: Reflections on power and gender in Israeli-Palestinian culture” Anthropological Quarterly 79 (3): 398-431. 2006

Appeared also in Generations, Locations, Identities: Contemporary Perspectives on Society and Culture in Israel (a festschrift to S.N. Eisenstadt)  Eds. Hannah Herzog, Tal Cokhavi and Shimson Zenliker. Jerusalem: Van Leer. Pp: 369-393. 2007. (Hebrew)

Sa’ar, Amalia. "Postcolonial feminism, the politics of identification, and the liberal bargain" Gender & Society 19 (5): 680-700. 2005

Appeared also in Cultural Diversity and Empowerment of Minorities. Eds. Majed Al-Haj and Rosemarie Mielke. New York

and Oxford: Berghahn Books. Pp: 173-196. 2007

Sa’ar, Amalia. "On the sexuality of unmarried women in the Palestinian community in Israel" Theory and Criticism 25: 13-30 (Hebrew). 2005

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Many ways of becoming a woman: The case of unmarried Israeli-Palestinian ‘girls’” Ethnology 43 (1):1-18. 2004

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Lonely in your firm grip: Women in Israeli-Palestinian families” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 7 (4):723-739. 2001

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Carefully on the margins: Christian-Palestinians in Haifa between nation and state.” American Ethnologist. Vol. 25 (2): 214-239. 1998

Research Reports

1.     Sa’ar, Amalia, Sachs Dalia and Aharoni Sarai. The influence of the armed Israeli-Palestinian conflict on women in Israel  Research report presented to the 49th meeting of the CSW). The UN, New-York- March 2005

2.     Sa’ar, Amalia. ‘A Business of One's Own', an evaluation report of a micro-enterprise project among low-income women in Israel.(Hebrew) 2007

3.     Sa’ar, Amalia. ‘When I arrived at the university something in me started to dance’: making higher education accessible to older Druze women (Hebrew) 2009

4.     Sa’ar, Amalia. Palestinian-Israeli women's employment: The mystery of their absence and the way to their integration into the formal labor force.  (Hebrew) 2011

Book Reviews

1.     Sa’ar, Amalia. Anthropology and the Palestinians, by Dan Rabinowitz, Ra'anana: Beit Berl. Gama'a 4: 135-143. (Hebrew) 1989   

2.     Sa’ar, Amalia. Women and the politics of military confrontation; Palestinian and Israeli gendered narratives of dislocation eds. Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2002. Israeli Sociology Vol. 5 (2): 472-474. (Hebrew) 2003  

3.     Sa’ar, Amalia. The Nation and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement 1920-1948, by Ellen L. Fleischmann. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. The Middle East Journal. 58 (1): 143-144. 2004

4.     Sa’ar, Amalia. Comparing Cultures: Dimensions of Culture in a Comparative Perspective eds. Henk Vinken, Joseph Soeters, and Peter Ester, Leiden and Boston: Brill. International Sociology Review of Books 21 (3): 403-405 2006.

5.     Sa’ar, Amalia. Women in the South; Space, Periphery, and Gender eds. H. Dahan-Kalev, N. Yanay, and N. Berkovitz. Hargol Publishing. Israeli Sociology 8 (2): 173-175. (Hebrew) 2007  

6.     Sa’ar, Amalia. Resistance, repression, and gender politics in occupied Palestine and Jordan, by Frances S. Hasso, Syracuse University Press. British Journal of Middle East Studies 35 (1): 129-131. 2008

7.     Sa’ar, Amalia. Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender among Palestinians in Israel. Edited by Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh and Isis Nusair. State University of New York Press 2010. Review of Middle East Studies. 45 (1): 113-115. 2011

8.     Sa’ar, Amalia. Exposed to dialogue: encounters between Jews and Arabs in Israel, by Maya Kahanoff, Ben-Gurion University Press. Israeli Sociology 13(2): 219-221. (Hebrew) 2012  

9.     Sa’ar, Amalia. Housewives of Japan, by Ofra Godstein-Gidoni, Palgrave Macmillan Israeli Sociology 15 (2): 211-212. (Hebrew) 2015  

10.  Sa’ar, Amalia. Anti-Crisis, by Janet Roitman. Duke University Press. American Anthropologist 118 (1): 212-213. 2016

11.  Sa’ar, Amalia. Gendering Israel’s Outsourcing, by Orly Benjamin. Palgave Macmillan. Gender, Work & Organization pp. 1-3. 2018

11a.   Sa’ar, Amalia. Gendering Israel’s Outsourcing, by Orly Benjamin. Palgave Macmillan. Israeli Sociology 20(1): 134-136. 2019. (Hebrew)  

12.  Sa'ar, Amalia. A Table for One by Kinneret Lahad. Cambridge U Press. Israeli Sociology 22(1): 183-185. 2021. (Hebrew).

13.  Sa’ar, Amalia. Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia Karim. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Israeli Sociology  24 (2): 152-154. (Hebrew)

14.  Sa’ar, Amalia. 2025. Organising for Change: Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations by Silke Roth and Clare Saunders. Bristol University Press. Mobilization 30 (2)

Other Works and Publications

1.     Sa’ar, Amalia. “UN security resolution 1325: Relevance to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” Where Are All the Women? UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Gender Perspectives of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Pp: 59-62. Eds., Sarai Aharoni and Rula Deeb. Haifa: Pardes. 2003

2.     Sa’ar, Amalia. "Women, gender and feminist movements: Israel" Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures. Brill, 2005

3.     Sa’ar, Amalia. “From Politics of Identity to Politics of Identification: Musings over the Quarters’ Policy” Isha-l-Isha Feminist: Thirty Years of Activism.” Pp: 393-403. Eds., Hana Safran and Talma Bar-Din. Haifa: Pardes (Hebrew) 2013

4.     Sa’ar, Amalia. “From the viewpoint of a cultural anthropologist: The plan of Haifa as a shared city. ”Haifa: Between Reality and the Vision of a Shared City. Pp: 444-451. Ed. Rolly Rosen. Haifa: Pardes (Hebrew). 2013

5.     Sa’ar, Amalia. “Palestinian women in the Israeli Workforce and the idea of economic citizenship” Economic Sociology, the European Electronic Newsletter 16 (2), March: 14-20. 2015

6.     Sa’ar, Amalia."On anthropology in Israel – a response" paper initiated and edited by Virginia Domonguez American Anthropologist (section on World Anthropology) 118 (1): 152-153. 2016

7.     Sa'ar, Amalia "Economic citizenship in Israel under the Nation's Law: the case of Palestinian women." Israeli Sociology Symposium on Citizenship in Israel (Hebrew). 20 (1): 16-18. 2019.

Book Chapters

Sa’ar, Amalia. Forthcoming. “Diversity, equity, and inclusion during three racial capitalist phases: liberal, neoliberal, and illiberal, a critical appraisal” Handbook on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Sociology Eds. Andrea D. Bührmann, Helga Eberherr, Birgit Riegraf Edward Elgar Publishing

Sa’ar, Amalia. Forthcoming. “Breaking through: Palestinian women's workforce participation in Israel” Handbook on Feminist Political Economy: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Eds., Valentine M. Moghadam and Gamze Çavdar.

Sa'ar, Amalia "Economic citizenship as an apolitical path for including the Palestinians in the Israeli ethnocracy" in Integration under Separation Palestinian Citizens in Israel in the Neoliberal Economy Ed. Michael Shalev. Jerusalem: Van Leer (Hebrew). Forthcoming 2025.  

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Gender and sexual relations in the the Palestinian Society in Israel." The Arab Society in Israel (Unit number 6). Pp: 271-378. Eds., Ilana Kaufman and Mustafa Kabha. Ra'anana: The Open University. (Hebrew) 2007, updated version forthcoming 2025.

Bruker, Guy and Amalia Sa'ar. "Jewish Pilgrimage to Uman and the appropriation of the holy space" Holy Places in the Holy Land, Ethnographic Perspectives. Eds. Lior Chen, Omer Hacker and Nurit Stadler. Ra'anana: Lamda, Open University Press. 2021. (Hebrew) 

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Holistic, community-oriented empowerment: the case of women in recently recognized villages in Galilee.”Kuluna Hikaya: Action Oriented Research on Al-Tufula Center’s Empowerment Approach to Engaging Women in Social Change. Ed. Johayna Hossein.  Nazareth: Al-Tufula Center (Arabic). 2013

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Feminine strength: Reflections on power and gender in Israeli-Palestinian culture” Generations, Locations, Identities: Contemporary Perspectives on Society and Culture in Israel (a festschrift to S.N. Eisenstadt)  Eds. Hannah Herzog, Tal Cokhavi and Shimson Zenliker. Jerusalem: Van Leer. Pp: 369-393. 2007. (Hebrew)

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Cooperation and conflict in the zone of civil society: Arab-Jewish activism in Jaffa" Mixed Cities/Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics and Gender Relations in Mixed Towns in Israel/Palestine. Eds. Dan Monterescu and Dan Rabinowitz. Ashgate. Pp: 261-280. 2007

Sa’ar, Amalia. "Postcolonial feminism, the politics of identification, and the liberal bargain" Cultural Diversity and Empowerment of Minorities. Eds. Majed Al-Haj and Rosemarie Mielke. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. Pp: 173-196. 2007

Sa’ar, Amalia. “Doing market’ across national and gender divides: Consumption patterns of Israeli Palestinians." Consumption and Market Society in Israel. Pp: 123-140. Eds. Yoram Carmeli and Kalman Applbaum. Oxford: Berg Publication. 2004