Dina and Discipline

Chava Brownfield Stein, )PhD( is a lecturer in the Program in Gender Studies at Bar-Ilan University and in 'Hamiderasha', the School of Art, at Beit Berl Academic College. Her dissertation explores the eroticization of ‘Civil-Militarism' in Israel through photographs of IDF Women Soldiers and her research interests are in visual culture, feminist theory and militarism and gender. She is member of the Workshop on Research in Visual Culture Program Committee. Her latest publication," Six days, 45 minutes and one photograph of woman soldier" was published in 2008 in Israel, Studies in Zionism and the State of Israel - History, Culture and Society