Publications

MEIRA WEISS

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

M.A. Thesis

           

Weiss, M. “The Bereaved Parent’s Position: Aspects of Life Review, Rebellion and Self Fulfillment.” Supervisors: Shokeid M. and Deshen S., 1978.

Ph.D. Thesis

            Weiss, M. “Infirmity and Identity: Handicapped Children as Perceived by their Parents.” Supervisors: Shokeid M. and Deshen S., 1986.

Books

1.         Weiss, M. Conditional Love: Parental Attitudes towards Handicapped                  

            Children. 1991, Sifriyat Hapoalim, Tel Aviv (in Hebrew).

      

1a.       Weiss, M.  Conditional Love: Parents’ Attitudes toward Handicapped Children.    

            Bergin &  Garvey, Greenwood Publications, Westport, CT, 1994, 296 p. The

            English edition was revised, updated and expanded.

2.        Weiss, M. The Chosen Body: The Politics of the Body in Israeli Society. Stanford                     University Press, 2002

2a.       Weiss, M. The Chosen Body: The Politics of the Body in Israeli Society (in

            Hebrew). Forthcoming in Hakubutz Hameouchad, Publisher, Tel Aviv.

3.         Weiss, M  Fingerprinting the Collectivity : forthcoming in Princeton UP.

Articles (Selected List)

3.         Weiss, M. “The Bereaved Parent’s Position: Aspects of Life Review and Self-Fulfillment,” Current Perspectives on Aging and Life Cycle, 1989, 30:269-280.

4.         Rubin, N, Shmilovitz, C. and Weiss, M. “From Fat to Thin: Informal Ritual of Identity Change,” Symbolic Interaction, 1993, Vol.16, No.1

4a.       Rubin, N, Shmilovitz, C. and   Weiss, M. “The Obese and the Slim: Personal Definitional Rights of Identity Change in a Group of Obese People who Became Slim after Gastric Reduction Surgery,” Megamot, 1994, 36(1):5-19 (in Hebrew).

5.         Weiss, M. “Bedside Manners: Paradoxes of Physician Behavior in Grand Rounds,” Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 1993, 17:235-253.

6.         Weiss, M. “Non-Person and Non-Home: Territorial Seclusion of Appearance-Impaired Children,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, January 1994, Vol.22, No. 4:463-487.

7.         Weiss, M. “Territorial Isolation and Physical Deformity: Israeli Parents’ Reaction to Disabled Children,” Disability, Handicap and Society, 1997, 12(2): 259-271.

8.         Weiss, M. “Of Man and Beast: from ‘person’ to ‘non person,” Semiotica, 1995, (106-½): 55-76.

9.         Weiss, M. “Fence-Sitters: Parents’ Reactions to Sexual Ambiguities in their Newborn Children,” Semiotica, 1995 (107-½): 33-50.

10.       Weiss, M. “Cancer and Imputed Infection: Images of ‘The Disease’ among Patients’ Relatives,” The Sociological Review, 1995, Vol.42, No.1: 1-35.

11.       Weiss, M. “Signifying the Pandemics: Metaphors of AIDS, Cancer and Heart Disease,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 1997, 11(4): 1-21.

12.       Weiss, M. “War Bodies - Hedonist Bodies: Dialectics of the Collective and the Individual in Israeli Society,” American Ethnologist, 1997, 24(4): 1-20.

13.       Weiss, M. “For Doctors’ Eyes Only: Medical Records in Two Israeli Hospitals, ”Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1997, 21(3): 283-302.

14.       Weiss, M. “Bereavement, Commemoration and Collective Identity in Contemporary Israeli Society,” Anthropological Quarterly, 1997, 70(2): 91-101.

15.       Weiss, M. “Parents’ Rejection of their Appearance-Impaired Newborns: Some Critical Observations Regarding the Social Myth of Bonding,” Marriage & Family Review, 1998, 27(3/4): 191-209.

16.       Weiss, M. “Narratives of Embodiment: the Discursive Formulation of Multiple Bodies,” Semiotica, 1998, (118-3/4): 239-260.

17.       Weiss, M. “Conditions of Mothering: The bio-Politics of falling in love with your child,” Social Science Journal, 1998, 35(1): 87-105.

18.       Weiss, M. “Engendering the Gulf War: Israeli Nurses and the Discourse of Soldiering,” Theory and Criticism, 7:235-246, 1995 (in Hebrew).

18a.     Weiss, M. “Engendering the Gulf War: Israeli Nurses and the Discourse of Soldiering,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 1998, 27(2): 197-218.

19.       Weiss, M. “‘We Are All One Bereaved Family’: Personal Loss and Collective Mourning in Israeli Society,” Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 1999, Vol. 14, Oxford University Press.

 

20.      Weiss, M.    “‘Writing Culture’ Under the Gaze of my   Country,” Ethnography,

          2001, March, 2(1): 77-91.     

21.      Weiss, M.    “The Children of Yemen: Bodies, Medicalization and Nation  

           Building,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2001, June, 15 (2):206-221

22.      Weiss, M.    “The Immigrating Body and the Body Politic: The Yemenite                    

Children Affair and Body Commodification in Israel,” Theory, Culture and Society/ Body and Society (special issue), 2001, 7(2-3): 93-109.

23.       Weiss, M.    “The Body of the Nation: Terrorism and the Embodiment of               

            Nationalism in Contemporary Israel,” Anthropological Quarterly, 2002, 

            January, 75 (1).

24.      Weiss, M.    “The Postmodern State and Collective Individualism: A Comparative    Look at Israeli Society and Western Consumer Culture,” Social Sciences Journal,

           2003, 40 (2)

25.      Weiss, M.    “The ‘Chosen Body’: A Semiotic Analysis of the Discourse of

Israeli Militarism and Collective Identity,” Semiotica.

26.       Weiss, M.    "The Chosen Body: The Politics of the Soldier's Body in Israeli-                          Jewish Society", forthcoming in Theory and Criticism (Teorya Ou Bikoret, Hebrew) 

27.      Weiss, M. "Genetics and Religion in the Identification of Soldiers' Bodies",    Forthcoming in Mortality.

.Chapters in Books

28.       Weiss, M. “Ethical Reflection: Taking a Walk on the Wild Side,” pp. 149-162 in: N. Scheper-Hughes and C. Sargent (eds.), Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1999.

29.       Weiss, M.    “The Immigrating Body and the Body Politic: The   Yemenite 

             Children Affair and Body Commodification in Israel,” pp. 93-110 in: Nancy

             Scheper- Hughes and Loic Wacqant (eds.), Commodifying Bodies, Sage,

             2002.

 

30.         Weiss, M. "The Chosen Body and the Rejection of Disability in Israeli Society", pp. 107-127,  in: B. Ingstead and S. Reynolds Whyteed (Eds.). Disability in the Local and Global worlds, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.   

31.   Weiss, M.  "Others within Us: Collective Identity, Positioning and    Displacement",  Chapter 8,   in: A. Mclean and Leibing (Eds.). The Shadow Side of Field Work: Theorizing the Blurred Orders between Ethnography and Life, Blackwell.                                  

Papers at Professional Conferences (Selected List)

1.          Weiss, M. “Parents’ Rejection of their Appearance-Impaired Newborns.”

             Paper presented at the 15th Conference of ISS, Bar Ilan University, 1984.

            (16 MSP)

2.         Weiss, M. “Territorial Isolation and Physical Deformity: Israeli Parents’ Reaction to Disabled Children.”

            Paper presented at the 23rd Conference of IPA (Israel Psychological Association), Tel Aviv University, 1987. (24 MSP)

3.         Weiss, M. “Visual Images of Cancer and Aids.”

            Presented at the 19th Conference of ISS, Ben Gurion University, 1988.

            (15 MSP)

4.         Weiss, M. “Body Borders: The Case of Disability.”

            Paper presented at the IAA, Tel Aviv University, 1988. (24 MSP)

5.         Weiss, M. “Theatre in Medical Context: The Case of Grand Rounds”

            Paper presented at the 3rd Congress of the European Society of Medical Sociology, Marburg, Germany, September 1990. Also presented at the IAA, Bar Ilan University, 1991. (12 MSP)

6.         Weiss, M. “Fence-Sitters: Israeli Parents’ Reactions to Sexual Ambiguities in their Newborn Children.”

            Paper presented at the European Association of Social Anthropologists, 2nd Conference, Prague, 28-31 August 1992. Also presented at the IAA, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1993. (20 MSP)

7.         Weiss, M. “Illusion of Knowledge: The Case of the Medical Record.”

            Paper presented at the Joint Conference of the European Society of Medical Sociology and British Sociological Association, Medical Sociology Group, University of Edinburgh, 18-21 September 1992. (22 MSP)

8.         Weiss, M. “Cancer and Imputed Infection: Images of the ‘Disease’ among Patients’ Relatives.”

            Presented at the 24th Conference of ISA, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1993. (20 MSP)

9.         Weiss, M. “Ethical Reflection: Taking a Walk on the Wild Side.”

            Paper presented at the IAA, 1994. (15 MSP)

10.       Weiss, M. “Engendering Gulf War Memories: Israeli Nurses and the Discourse of Soldiering.” (20 MSP)

            Paper presented at the IAA, Ein-Gedi, 1995.

11.       Weiss, M. “In Your Blood You Shall Live: A Micro-Political Analysis of Ideology and Resistance in the Israeli Discourse of Bereavement.”

            Paper presented at the IAA, Zichron Yaacov, 1996. (20 MSP)

12.       Weiss, M. “Signifying the Pandemics: Metaphors of AIDS, Cancer and Heart Disease.” (20 MSP)

            Paper presented at the 6th Biennial ESMS (European Society of Health and Medical Sociology) Conference, 29-31 August 1996, Budapest, Hungary.

13.       Weiss, M. “The Children of Yemen: Doing Ethnography in an Institute of Forensic Medicine.” Paper presented at the annual AAA meeting, 19-23 November 1997, Washington, USA.

14.       Weiss, M. “The Body of the Nation: The Israeli ‘Chosen Body’ Along the Life Cycle.” Paper presented at the 34th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, 12-15 July 1999, Tel Aviv, Israel.

15.       Weiss, M. “The Eyes of the Country: Anthropology without Fears.” Paper presented at the annual AAA meeting, November 1999, Chicago, USA. 

16.     Weiss, M. “Identifying the Body of the Nation,” Paper presented at the Regional meeting of Crisis Management: Public and Private, April 2000, Turkey.  

17.       Weiss, M.   “Terrorism and the Embodiment of Nationalism in Contemporary       

Israel.”  Paper presented at the 5^th International Conference on The Social   Aids      London, London. 

17a.     Weiss, M.    “The Body of the Nation: Terrorism and the Embodiment of   

           Nationalism in Contemporary Israel,” Paper presented at the AAA (American     

           Anthropological Association), November 2000, San Francisco.

18        Weiss, M. “The Chosen Body”, Paper presented at the    

             AAA (American Anthropological Association), November 2002, New Orleans.

19.       Weiss, M. "Genetics and Religion", Paper presented at the ASA (American Sociological Association), August 2004, San Francisco.

20.         Weiss, M. "Genetics Forensic Medicine and Religion", Paper presented at the

               AAA (American Anthropological association) November 2005, Washington                     DC.

21.       Weiss, M. "Anthropology and Aids",  Keynote speaker .  Conference on Aids, Ichilove Hospital, December 2006, Tel Aviv.

22.     Weiss, M.  "Ehnography and writing on the Body", Chair and discussant, the IAA conference, 2007, Achva.