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Abstract
This study examines patterns of gendered divisions of labor in a moshav
(a cooperative agricultural settlement) in the central Arava region in the
south of Israel in 2011. As with Israel’s other cooperative agricultural
settlements, Moshav Tzin (fictitious name) was privatized in 1989, at which
time responsibility for many areas under its jurisdiction was transferred to
the familial agricultural unit. Unlike other cooperative agricultural
settlements, however, the remoteness of Moshav Tzin contributed to the
preservation of agriculture as its main source of income. The following
study investigates how the process of privatization affected the gendered
division of labor in a moshav that has remained agricultural.