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In light of growing interest in the role of market-oriented journalism to enable political and civic discourse, this study examines Israeli popular women's magazines, in which consumerism is key, asking whether this genre also has the potential to further such discourse. The study examines the relationship between women's magazines and the public sphere in Israel by means of microlevel analysis of examples of the encounter between the two domains. The corpus was derived from two periods of social protest, the early 1970s and the summer of 2011, and includes items from the two largest-circulation magazines. The analysis reveals a dynamic process of ideological struggle demonstrating oppositional power and a transformative role, as well as two coverage practices that enabled the conflicting ideological discourse: use of the personal story to paint the bigger picture and a blend of coverage conventions identified with "popular journalism" with conventions identified with "quality journalism."

Abstract
In this article we focus on the gendered national construction on Israeli stamps commemorating renowned women over the course of Israel's history. We analyze gender construction on both the selection of the stamps and in their design. Based on analyses of the social role of women in Israeli historiography, archival documents, interviews with fourteen key figures involved in conceiving and designing the stamps, and the way stamp design constructs gendered memory, we outline major aspects of commemorating women in stamps: gender blindness, women's accomplishments, identity politics, and the emergence of gender as a theme. These are discussed in the context of gendering in official commemoration, the development of feminist historiography and discourse in Israel, and the conjunction of these issues and stamp design.