Yonit Naaman (Hebrew: יונית נעמן; born March 13, 1975) is an Israeli poet, essayist, editor, and literary and cultural researcher.
She lectures poetry at Sapir Academic College, leads dialog workshops for Arabs and Jews, and is a board member of the non-profit organization "Zazim – Community Action", which promotes citizen activism.
[1] In an interview, Naaman revealed that the book was almost named "Excess Baggage", and that it expresses, among other themes "one of the tensions present in my life, and certainly in my writing: the fear of being too much.
Effi Ziv, in Haaretz, wrote that "Yonit Na'aman's rich and deep language expresses allegiance to both Hebrew's roots and its treetops.
An entire chapter is dedicated to the topic "Man's Wife", including her secret occasional longing for the normative nuclear family she might have chosen had she not "fallen into feminist captivity", as she puts it.
", opining that "Her second book succumbs to political correctness to the extent that the new position it purports to portray turns out to be worn out and unoriginal.