Einat Peled
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 165365 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Einat Peled |
| NOMBRES | Einat |
| APELLIDO | Peled |
| FIRMA | PELED E |
| AFILIACIONES | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5540-4366 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 223 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
“I wouldn’t want a child like you who sleeps around for money”
Emotional burden and self-care strategies among individuals in the sex trade during Covid-19 in Israel
Research on the sex trade during COVID-19 has documented the intertwined material and emotional hardships faced by individuals in the sex trade. Building on these insights, this article examines how self-care practices functioned as relational and strategic responses to crisis. Drawing on twenty semi-structured interviews conducted in Israel between May and December 2020, findings highlight two intersecting themes: the emotional burden caused by …
It’s probably an addiction—It can't be anything else”
we identified two main contradictory themes regarding the role of the addict identity in the self-narratives of the participants: one presenting the addict identity as contributing to the participants' positive self-perception and the second as challenging it. Within a social context that often portrays MPWS as perpetrators and abusers, the addiction discourse was a useful source in helping the participants negotiate the dilemma of how to engage …
Paying for Sex Among Heterosexual Men in Israel
Diverse perceptions of paying for sex notwithstanding, it is acknowledged as a societal concern in many countries worldwide, with no consensus reached regarding the most appropriate policies. The present study directed its attention toward heterosexual men who pay for sex and sought to explore the potential influences of distress and gender role conflict (GRC) on the likelihood of sex payment, while taking into consideration attitudes toward payi…
It’s Like Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde”
This study examined how Israeli men who pay women for sex (MPWS) construct and sustain a moral identity within the social context that often portrays them as deviants, perpetrators, and abusers, thereby challenging their ability to maintain a respectful and dignified image. Twenty-three Israeli MPWS participated in in-depth semi-structured interviews, which were then analyzed using constructivist grounded theory method. Using the theoretical fram…
What promotes engagement in formal and informal help relationships? Perspectives of commercially sexually exploited youth
Migration Decision-Making Process
Increasing numbers of migrants have fled human rights abuses, seeking refugee status. This study, involving semi-structured interviews with 12 African asylum-seeking women in Israel, explores their decision to leave home, journey to, and enter Israel without legal authorization. It further examines their retrospective view of leaving home amidst their experiences in Israel. Guided by a qualitative descriptive approach, the analysis reveals contra…
Help-Seeking and Help-Related Experiences of Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth
This interpretive qualitative meta-synthesis (QMS) aims to systematically review what we know about the help-seeking and help-related experiences of commercially sexually exploited youth (CSEY). A comprehensive search of the relevant databases was conducted to identify published qualitative peer-reviewed papers and research reports about the experiences and perceptions of CSEY. A corpus of 34 qualitative studies was compiled and synthesized, usin…
Including the issue of receiving payment for sex in intervention for substance use disorder
Predictors of Public Attitudes Regarding the Impact of “End Demand” Legislation
Constructing Identity Through Sex-Consumption
This study examined how consumerism shapes the identity construction processes of Israeli men who pay women for sex (MPWS). Using the theoretical framework of symbolic interaction and the theoretical concept of extended self , we explored how Israeli MPWS extend their selves through sex-consumption. To this end, we conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 23 Israeli MPWS. An interpretive epistemology and a constructivist grounded theory…
The Question of Moral Worth in a Controversial Market
This study examined the internal moral debate that takes place among Israeli men who pay for sex (MWPS) while traveling abroad. We explored how they construct their sense of moral worth and present themselves as moral subjects in light of the intensified stigmatization of their actions. Using the theoretical frameworks of pragmatic morality and boundary work , we conceptualize four main moral justification regimes that MWPS use to construct thems…
How perceptions of masculinity and intimate sexual relationships shape men’s experiences of paying for sex
This qualitative study explores how perceptions of masculinity, sexual intimate relationships and sex-for-pay (SFP) shape the experiences of men who pay women for sex (MPWS). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 Israeli MPWS. Participants were recruited through an STD community clinic, an anonymous online survey, ads posted in online forums for MPWS, and an organization for the abolition of prostitution. The findings offer a complex …
Helping individuals in the sex trade during Covid-19
These findings add to the knowledge about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on aid organizations, particularly the need for greater collaboration between aid organizations during health crises and governmental support for these organizations. In addition, the study highlights the opportunities that a global and local health crisis can create advancing new knowledge and practices used by aid organizations in their work to assist IST populations…
Between Crisis and Opportunity
The complex intersection of migration and masculinity is a growing field of study. This research explores how married Eritrean refugee men in Israel negotiated masculinity-related challenges within the context of gender relations. A constructivist notion of masculinity informed an interpretive analysis of in-depths interviews with the Eritrean men. It depicted the men's experiences of a loss of power within gender relations as a 'crisis' of mascu…
Gendered power relations in women-to-men interviews on controversial sexual behavior
This article explores gendered power relations in studies of stigmatized sexual behavior, through a poststructuralist feminist theoretical perspective. Interviews conducted by a female interviewer with twenty men who pay for sex were analyzed using the interpretive constructivist method. We applied the concept defended subjects to suggest that the subjects – both interviewer and interviewees – defended themselves against three major threats that …
Intertextual psychoanalytic-intersubjective analysis in qualitative research
Men Who Pay for Sex Once, More than Once, or Not at All
In an attempt to characterize men who pay women for sex (MPWS), theory and research generally divides men into two groups: men who pay for sex and those who never paid for sex. However, this dichotomy may lack sufficient detail to understand sex payment accurately, and with regard to attitudes toward paying for sex and frequency of sex payment. The present study set out to explore the associations between views toward MPWS; socio-demographic char…
Identity Construction of Men Who Pay Women for Sex
This interpretive qualitative meta-synthesis (QMS) aims to systematically review what we know about identity construction of men who pay women for sex (MPWS). A corpus of 54 qualitative studies about the experiences and perceptions of MPWS was synthesized, using the theoretical framework of symbolic interaction and QMS guidelines. This synthesis yielded novel insights into the meanings that MPWS attribute to their involvement in the sex industry,…
Health behaviour change among commercially sexually exploited Israeli youth and young adults in a multi‐module program
Commercially sexually exploited youth and young adults (hereafter CSEY) are at high risk for various health adversities, but little is known about interventions that can improve their health outcomes. This study reports changes in health behaviours-positive health behaviours, drug use and risky sexual behaviour-in the first stages of treatment of 122 participants in a comprehensive multi-module program for CSEY in Israel. Data included sociodemog…
The Attitudes Toward Men Who Pay for Sex Scale
From research on girls to girlhood studies
This review, based on analysis of the abstracts of 271 academic publications, critically examines the development of girlhood studies within a specific sociocultural context – Israeli society. By examining one particular context the authors hope to contribute to the discourse on the worldwide evolution of girlhood studies. The following research questions were posed: How did the body of literature on Israeli girls develop over time? What is the d…
A girl's place is in the home”
Little is known about the unique gendered experiences of runaway and homeless girls. This feminist study approaches the body and movement of these girls as potential sites of social control. We explored whether and how social values and directives that view the home as the proper place for girls are reflected in the narratives of 17 Israeli girls who have left or been pushed out of their homes, based on a critical interpretive analysis. We found …
The construction of maternal identity among Israeli mothers who are welfare clients
Dominant social, cultural, and professional discourses view motherhood as the core of a woman's identity. Thus, the identity of women who do not meet the general expectations of motherhood might be negatively affected. Specifically, mothers who are welfare clients may violate the prevailing norms concerning the maternal role. This qualitative study explores how Israeli mothers who are welfare clients construct their maternal identity. Studies of …
The value and rationale of gender‐specific intervention with at‐risk adolescent girls
Gender‐specific intervention (GSI) with at‐risk adolescent girls (ARAGs) is highly prevalent in Israel and elsewhere; professionals commonly consider GSI to be beneficial for ARAGs. However, despite the popularity of such programmes, there is little empirical support for their effectiveness and almost no critical examination of their theoretical rationale. The aim of this qualitative, naturalistic study was to explore how experienced professional…
Social Workers' and Service Users' Causal Attributions for Poverty
Poverty and its etiology have been major subjects of concern for the social work profession throughout its history. This study focused on four causal attributions for poverty: social-structural, motivational, psychological, and fatalistic. More specifically, it examined the differences between social workers' and service users' perceptions of the causes of poverty. Participants were 401 service users and 410 social workers located in a variety of…
The Attitudes Toward Prostitutes and Prostitution Scale
Contemporary developments in social attitudes toward prostitution and prostitutes influence both social policies and the social work profession. Understanding individuals’ attitudes toward these issues is necessary for the development of social interventions and policies aimed at reducing stigmata attached to them. This article describes a new research measure for the assessment of attitudes toward prostitutes and prostitution (the Attitudes towa…
Advocacy for battered women
Choice and Empowerment for Battered Women Who Stay
This article examines the individual and social construction of empowerment for battered women who choose to stay with their abusers through a critical examination of the images of battered women who stay, constructed in the professional literature on various ecological levels, and a proposal of a constructivist model for empowering battered women who choose to stay that balances between their needs and rights. The model includes dimensions of ph…
The Fathering of Violent Men
The study presented in this research note aims to expand our understanding of the experience of fathering for men who are violent toward their partners. The naturalistic qualitative methodology applied was shaped by phenomenological, feminist, and interpretative interactionist influences. In-depth interviews were conducted with 14 abusive men identified through domestic violence intervention centers. The findings describe the drama of fathering f…
The Perceptions of Child Protection Officers toward Mothering in Prostitution
This qualitative study examines the perceptions of mothering in prostitution among Israeli female child protection officers. The authors hypothesize that their views are affected by social perceptions of motherhood and prostitution, as well as by their life experience. Data were collected through semistructured interviews. The study finds that the participants expressed views of mothering and prostitution through two narratives stemming from an u…
Gendered power relations in women-to-men interviews on controversial sexual behavior
This article explores gendered power relations in studies of stigmatized sexual behavior, through a poststructuralist feminist theoretical perspective. Interviews conducted by a female interviewer with twenty men who pay for sex were analyzed using the interpretive constructivist method. We applied the concept defended subjects to suggest that the subjects – both interviewer and interviewees – defended themselves against three major threats that …
Paying for Sex While Traveling As Tourists
This qualitative study explored the experiences of 15 Israeli men who paid for sex while traveling as tourists abroad, based on in-depth, semistructured interviews with them. The findings focus on three major aspects of the participants' experiences: the meaning of sex for them and their reasons for wanting to pay for it; the problems involved in paying for sex; and paying for sex while traveling abroad as a preferable option to paying for sex in…
The Mothering Perceptions of Women Abused by Their Partner
This study examined how abused women perceived their mothering. Findings reveal the women's continuous struggle to function as good mothers in the face of the violence. Their main struggle--to create a buffer between "the children's world" and the "violent world"--was directed at preventing the abuse from affecting their functioning as mothers, restraining and "fixing" their partner's violence, and shielding their children from it. Although the w…
Representations of fathers and mothers in court petitions for dependent minor status for children at risk
Parenting by men who abuse women
Journal Article Parenting by men who abuse women: issues and dilemmas Get access E Peled E Peled Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2000, Pages 25–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/30.1.25 Published: 01 February 2000
The Question of Moral Worth in a Controversial Market
This study examined the internal moral debate that takes place among Israeli men who pay for sex (MWPS) while traveling abroad. We explored how they construct their sense of moral worth and present themselves as moral subjects in light of the intensified stigmatization of their actions. Using the theoretical frameworks of pragmatic morality and boundary work , we conceptualize four main moral justification regimes that MWPS use to construct thems…
Identity Construction of Men Who Pay Women for Sex
This interpretive qualitative meta-synthesis (QMS) aims to systematically review what we know about identity construction of men who pay women for sex (MPWS). A corpus of 54 qualitative studies about the experiences and perceptions of MPWS was synthesized, using the theoretical framework of symbolic interaction and QMS guidelines. This synthesis yielded novel insights into the meanings that MPWS attribute to their involvement in the sex industry,…
The philosophies, contents and pedagogies of environmental education programs in 10 Israeli elementary schools
In this study, our aim was to understand how environmental education has been implemented in Israeli elementary schools. We selected ten schools that had implemented Education for Sustainability programs and analyzed their mission statements and curriculum documents. We observed each school’s activities and interviewed teachers. Our analysis shows ambiguity with respect to the rationales and the theoretical foundations of the programs. It also sh…
Excusable Deficiency
This study examined how staff members in shelters for abused women perceive the women's mothering and the challenges when working with these mothers. Data were collected through focus group interviews with 30 workers at Israeli shelters for abused women. Findings revealed that workers typically held a "deficit perspective" when describing the residents' mothering skills. Most seemed committed to the notion of empowerment as a guiding framework fo…
The Battered Women's Movement Response to Children of Battered Women
An evaluation of societal responses to children of battered women in the last two decades reveals significant developments in professional awareness of the problem, knowledge about difficulties experienced by children, and services provided to children. Yet, current priorities and ideologies held by many in the battered women's movement (BWM) seem to interfere with attaining the goal of providing all children of battered women with the protection…
The Attitudes Toward Men Who Pay for Sex Scale
Staff Burnout in Israeli Battered Women's Shelters
The article reports the results of an exploratory study on the impact of shelter work on shelter staff. Specifically, the study examined the relationships between workers' personal variables, aspects of workers' position and workers' emotional burnout. The findings suggest that shelter workers in Israel experience low levels of emotional burnout, high levels of work-related emotional disturbance after work hours and high levels of social support.…
The Experience of Living with Violence for Preadolescent Children of Battered Women
Based on in-depth interviews with preadolescents and their mothers, a detailed description is provided of the experience of children who were exposed to violence at home. Findings are organized into five semichronological phases: (a) living with ordinary fights, (b) witnessing violent events, (c) being challenged by mothers' public confrontations of the violence, (d) adjusting to new realities in the long-term aftermath of violence, and (e) livin…
Dimensions and Correlates of Client Satisfaction
Client satisfaction surveys give clients a voice in the planning and management of services. While their use is quite widespread, they have hardly at all been used in the evaluation of shelters for homeless youths. In this article, the authors present findings of a client satisfaction survey conducted among residents of a shelter for homeless youths in Tel Aviv, Israel, shortly after their departure from the shelter. Satisfaction was affected mai…
The meaning of home for runaway girls
This naturalistic qualitative study examines the concept of “home” for runaway girls. Through the “home story” of girls who run away from home, the authors hoped to understand the many facets of home, as well as broaden the existing knowledge‐base about the phenomenon of adolescent runaway girls. Data consisted of in‐depth interviews with 15 girls aged 13 to 21. The findings attest to the complex perception of home by participants as both existin…
A model for analysing societal responses to woman battering
This article presents a conceptual framework for analyzing societal responses to women battering in Israel. The model of policy analysis consisted of three specific dimensions namely: 1) descriptive-operational; 2) analytic interpretive; and 3) chronological. Allocation provision delivery and financing of interventions with the abused Israeli women and their families were conducted from 1986 to 1988 through telephone surveys. Data indicate that d…
Between Crisis and Opportunity
The complex intersection of migration and masculinity is a growing field of study. This research explores how married Eritrean refugee men in Israel negotiated masculinity-related challenges within the context of gender relations. A constructivist notion of masculinity informed an interpretive analysis of in-depths interviews with the Eritrean men. It depicted the men's experiences of a loss of power within gender relations as a 'crisis' of mascu…
The value and rationale of gender‐specific intervention with at‐risk adolescent girls
Gender‐specific intervention (GSI) with at‐risk adolescent girls (ARAGs) is highly prevalent in Israel and elsewhere; professionals commonly consider GSI to be beneficial for ARAGs. However, despite the popularity of such programmes, there is little empirical support for their effectiveness and almost no critical examination of their theoretical rationale. The aim of this qualitative, naturalistic study was to explore how experienced professional…
Goal Focused Evaluation
This article revisits a longstanding controversy regarding the place of organizational goals in evaluation. While early writers saw goals as the yardstick against which outcomes are measured, others argued for a goal free evaluation. We propose a Goal Focused Evaluation, which acknowledges the problematic relationship that may exist between a program's declared and operative goals. It assumes that a comprehensive evaluation of a program's effecti…
A model for analysing societal responses to woman battering
This article presents a conceptual framework for analyzing societal responses to women battering in Israel. The model of policy analysis consisted of three specific dimensions namely: 1) descriptive-operational; 2) analytic interpretive; and 3) chronological. Allocation provision delivery and financing of interventions with the abused Israeli women and their families were conducted from 1986 to 1988 through telephone surveys. Data indicate that d…
Children who witness women battering
Advocacy for battered women
Intervention with Children of Battered Women
The Battered Women's Movement Response to Children of Battered Women
An evaluation of societal responses to children of battered women in the last two decades reveals significant developments in professional awareness of the problem, knowledge about difficulties experienced by children, and services provided to children. Yet, current priorities and ideologies held by many in the battered women's movement (BWM) seem to interfere with attaining the goal of providing all children of battered women with the protection…
Goal Focused Evaluation
This article revisits a longstanding controversy regarding the place of organizational goals in evaluation. While early writers saw goals as the yardstick against which outcomes are measured, others argued for a goal free evaluation. We propose a Goal Focused Evaluation, which acknowledges the problematic relationship that may exist between a program's declared and operative goals. It assumes that a comprehensive evaluation of a program's effecti…
Predicting Children's Domestic Violence Service Participation and Completion
This study was conducted at a large Midwestern domestic violence agency. It identified (a) the agency's potential child client population, (b) the agency's actual child client population, and (c) factors that enhance the likelihood of a child's participation in and completion of the agency's children's program. The study sample included 194 children exposed to domestic violence associated with battered women and battering men. Analysis were perfo…
The Experience of Living with Violence for Preadolescent Children of Battered Women
Based on in-depth interviews with preadolescents and their mothers, a detailed description is provided of the experience of children who were exposed to violence at home. Findings are organized into five semichronological phases: (a) living with ordinary fights, (b) witnessing violent events, (c) being challenged by mothers' public confrontations of the violence, (d) adjusting to new realities in the long-term aftermath of violence, and (e) livin…
Staff Burnout in Israeli Battered Women's Shelters
The article reports the results of an exploratory study on the impact of shelter work on shelter staff. Specifically, the study examined the relationships between workers' personal variables, aspects of workers' position and workers' emotional burnout. The findings suggest that shelter workers in Israel experience low levels of emotional burnout, high levels of work-related emotional disturbance after work hours and high levels of social support.…
Parenting by men who abuse women
Journal Article Parenting by men who abuse women: issues and dilemmas Get access E Peled E Peled Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2000, Pages 25–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/30.1.25 Published: 01 February 2000
Choice and Empowerment for Battered Women Who Stay
This article examines the individual and social construction of empowerment for battered women who choose to stay with their abusers through a critical examination of the images of battered women who stay, constructed in the professional literature on various ecological levels, and a proposal of a constructivist model for empowering battered women who choose to stay that balances between their needs and rights. The model includes dimensions of ph…
Where Do They Go From Here? Destinations of Youth Exciting a Shelter
Publishing Voice
To promote social justice, social workers are required, among other things, to engage in policy practice. The project at the center of this article aimed to improve the ability of social workers to use the mass media as an accessible method of policy practice. The project was conducted as part of an MSW course in Tel Aviv University. During the course, most of its participants succeeded in publishing op-ed articles on a variety of social topics, …
The Fathering of Violent Men
The study presented in this research note aims to expand our understanding of the experience of fathering for men who are violent toward their partners. The naturalistic qualitative methodology applied was shaped by phenomenological, feminist, and interpretative interactionist influences. In-depth interviews were conducted with 14 abusive men identified through domestic violence intervention centers. The findings describe the drama of fathering f…
Dimensions and Correlates of Client Satisfaction
Client satisfaction surveys give clients a voice in the planning and management of services. While their use is quite widespread, they have hardly at all been used in the evaluation of shelters for homeless youths. In this article, the authors present findings of a client satisfaction survey conducted among residents of a shelter for homeless youths in Tel Aviv, Israel, shortly after their departure from the shelter. Satisfaction was affected mai…
Representations of fathers and mothers in court petitions for dependent minor status for children at risk
The meaning of home for runaway girls
This naturalistic qualitative study examines the concept of “home” for runaway girls. Through the “home story” of girls who run away from home, the authors hoped to understand the many facets of home, as well as broaden the existing knowledge‐base about the phenomenon of adolescent runaway girls. Data consisted of in‐depth interviews with 15 girls aged 13 to 21. The findings attest to the complex perception of home by participants as both existin…
Social Workers' and Service Users' Causal Attributions for Poverty
Poverty and its etiology have been major subjects of concern for the social work profession throughout its history. This study focused on four causal attributions for poverty: social-structural, motivational, psychological, and fatalistic. More specifically, it examined the differences between social workers' and service users' perceptions of the causes of poverty. Participants were 401 service users and 410 social workers located in a variety of…
Excusable Deficiency
This study examined how staff members in shelters for abused women perceive the women's mothering and the challenges when working with these mothers. Data were collected through focus group interviews with 30 workers at Israeli shelters for abused women. Findings revealed that workers typically held a "deficit perspective" when describing the residents' mothering skills. Most seemed committed to the notion of empowerment as a guiding framework fo…
The Mothering of Women Abused by Their Partner
Findings of an outcome evaluation of a mothering group intervention with women abused by their partners are presented, based on measurements of intervention and control groups before, immediately after, and 3 months after the intervention. At Time 1, both groups reported moderate well-being, high parental self-efficacy, and low mothering-related stress. Comparisons within the intervention group revealed an increase in parental self-efficacy and i…
The Mothering Perceptions of Women Abused by Their Partner
This study examined how abused women perceived their mothering. Findings reveal the women's continuous struggle to function as good mothers in the face of the violence. Their main struggle--to create a buffer between "the children's world" and the "violent world"--was directed at preventing the abuse from affecting their functioning as mothers, restraining and "fixing" their partner's violence, and shielding their children from it. Although the w…
The Attitudes Toward Prostitutes and Prostitution Scale
Contemporary developments in social attitudes toward prostitution and prostitutes influence both social policies and the social work profession. Understanding individuals’ attitudes toward these issues is necessary for the development of social interventions and policies aimed at reducing stigmata attached to them. This article describes a new research measure for the assessment of attitudes toward prostitutes and prostitution (the Attitudes towa…
Construction of court petitions in cases of alternative placement of children at risk
This study examines court petitions constructed by 19 Israeli social workers in cases involving the placement of 37 maltreated children in alternative care. The petition is seen not as a systemic description of the child made by the social worker, but rather as a construction based on the social workers' understandings and interpretations with the aim of shaping court decisions. As such, the article describes a number of meaning-making strategies…
The Perceptions of Child Protection Officers toward Mothering in Prostitution
This qualitative study examines the perceptions of mothering in prostitution among Israeli female child protection officers. The authors hypothesize that their views are affected by social perceptions of motherhood and prostitution, as well as by their life experience. Data were collected through semistructured interviews. The study finds that the participants expressed views of mothering and prostitution through two narratives stemming from an u…
The mothering experiences of sex‐trafficked women
This qualitative study focuses on the mothering experiences of women from the former Soviet Union (FSU) who were sex-trafficked to Israel. In-depth interviews were conducted with 8 women who gave birth either in the FSU or in Israel. The women's stories reflect 3 experiential spheres, those of "the good mother," "the sacrificing mother," and "the mother who wants for herself." These mothering spheres were found to exist against the backdrop of a …
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