A Herbst-Debby
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 49841 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Herbst-Debby |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Herbst-Debby |
| FIRMA | HERBST-DEBBY A |
| AFILIACIONES | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2365-9724 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Label of shame - How formula-feeding mothers in Israel perceive the warning labels on infant formula packaging
This study explores the experiences of formula-feeding mothers in Israel as they navigate their maternal identity within a hegemonic infant-feeding discourse that promotes exclusive breastfeeding. While extensive research has focused on the benefits of breastfeeding, limited qualitative attention has been given to the lived experiences of formula-feeding mothers. Drawing on Adrienne Rich's concept of institutionalized motherhood, this study posit…
Human milk for cancer care
This qualitative case study examines how human milk is framed, negotiated, and justified as a therapeutic resource for adults with cancer within a large digital peer-to-peer human milk-sharing community. Drawing on discourse analysis of posts and comment threads from an online group dedicated to milk donation for oncology patients, the study analyzes how participants construct therapeutic meaning in a context marked by biomedical uncertainty and …
Motherhood as a Prism Shaping Financial Literacy for Retirement Among Generation Y Women
This qualitative study adopts a feminist perspective, delving into the cultural and moral dynamics inherent in financial literacy for retirement among Generation Y women in Israel. Employing the theoretical framework of gendered cultural schemas and focusing on the motherhood model, the research provides valuable insight into the social and moral forces that underlie young women’s financial literacy perceptions and actions regarding retirement in…
The compulsory adoption of children of parents with disabilities in Israel
Women who initiate divorce embrace autonomy
ObjectiveThis study investigates the coping mechanisms and resilience of women who initiate divorce, with a focus on their development of autonomy post-divorce.BackgroundLife after divorce is viewed as a transition period with new opportunities. This is particularly pertinent in Israel, a familistic, traditional society where family and marriage are centrally controlled by religious institutions.MethodA qualitative methodology involved semi-struc…
Differences in economic consequences of union dissolution across gender and ethnic groups in Belgium and Israel
What’s Your Pension Story? Women’s Perspectives during the Covid-19 Pandemic on Their Old-Age Pension Status, Past and Present
This study examines the present and retrospective views of mothers who are nearing or are at retirement age regarding their economic status, pension planning, and perceptions of state pension policy. The paper addresses gaps in the literature on the cross-intersections of employment history, vulnerable economic retirement status, and marital and parental status, thereby adopting a life course perspective. Based on in-depth interviews of thirty-on…
Stratified patterns of adolescent employment and their relation to educational attainment
The study examines relations between adolescent employment and three aspects of higher education: beginning an undergraduate degree, completing the degree and type of institution (more prestigious university versus less prestigious college). Our research adds a new dimension to the concept of adolescent employment: the contribution of the adolescent's earnings to household income. This dimension links the earnings of the adolescent, as reflected …
Working Their Way to Young Adulthood
This study contributes to the theoretical and empirical debate on how adolescent employment affects later labour market resources. Specifically, we view such employment as having a complex relation with labour market outcomes in young adulthood, depending on the specific resource examined: the likelihood to be employed and the earnings level. Focusing on Israeli millennials, we used administrative longitudinal data from the Israel National Insura…
Double jeopardy
Adolescent employment, family income and parental divorce
Journey to liberation
The study examines how young Palestinian women in Israel, who decide to settle in the “liberal” “world city” of Tel Aviv-Jaffa upon college graduation, cope with the anticipated response of their family and community of origin. Applying a qualitative methodology, we interviewed 12 such women, supplemented by analysis of two TV series about young, single, educated Israeli-Palestinians living away from home. Thematic analysis of the data sheds ligh…
Health and psychological distress implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for single mothers in Israel
The measures taken to stop the spread of COVID-19 pandemic may have severe economic, family and health consequences for socially vulnerable populations, such as single mothers. We assessed COVID-19 stressors (employment and economic changes and child-related worries) among a convenience sample of single mothers (n = 325), and examined their association with the mothers’ self-rated health (SRH) and psychological distress (symptoms of depression an…
(De)legitimization of single mothers’ welfare rights
This article contributes to the theoretical discussion of the historical legitimacy of single mothers by examining the construction of relationships between single motherhood and welfare policy. Specifically, the study analyses the changing discourse regarding single mothers, and the social policy designed for them, in the US, UK and Israel from the 1970s to the 2000s. These three countries are similar in terms of the embeddedness, extension and …
Palestinian mothers in Israel
This study analyzes the experience of Palestinian mothers in Israel participating in a non-mandatory welfare-to-work program. The goal is to explore the perceptions of these women and their trainers about the ways the program helps enhance the mothers' social capital. The study is based on in-depth interviews of 30 mothers and three trainers who participated in the program. The findings expose a range of mothers' voices. The three main ones are: …
Do the Privileged Always Win? Economic Consequences of Divorce by Income and Gender Groups
Economic Abuse of Palestinian Mothers in Israel
Focusing on Palestinian mothers in Israel participating in a nonmandatory welfare-to-work program, the study addresses whether these women experience economic abuse from their intimate partner/ex-partner, as well as whether they perceive the program as an opportunity to escape economic abuse and move toward economic independence. Based on interviews of 26 mothers and three trainers, the findings revealed dual economic abuse: in the domestic spher…
The Economically Responsible Single Mum who Sees to her Future
In response to the economic vulnerability of single mothers and in keeping with a neoliberal ideology, many Western countries have encouraged increased labour-market participation, often through welfare-to-work (WTW) programmes. One practice adopted in these programmes is deepening knowledge of pension savings and increasing financial savviness. Feminist research points to women's lower economic status than men at retirement, especially divorcees…
Doing good motherhood
Fragile Employment, Liquid Love
Low-income mothers in an Israeli welfare-to-work program
Welfare-to-work (WTW) programs use role modeling rhetoric to re-educate mothers to prioritize paid employment over presence-based childcare. Research has shown that mothers may resist this rhetoric if, historically, policies in their countries shaped their sense of entitlement to be supported as mothers. But under what conditions does such resistance build a critical voice? What other voices emerge in the encounter with the WTW rhetoric? This art…
Mixed-ethnicity marriages and marital dissolution in Israel
This study examines the relation between mixed-ethnicity couples and marital dissolution in Israel, an ethnically stratified immigrant society, including Jews from different continents and Israeli Palestinians. Findings indicate that, when defined broadly, mixed-ethnicity couples have higher divorce risks than endogamous couples. However, comparing mixed and non-mixed couples in terms of specific ethnic categories reveals a more complex picture. …
Mothers' postdivorce earnings in the context of welfare policy change
We examined in this study the implications of divorce for mothers' earnings, comparing the 1990s and the 2000s, and illuminating developments in welfare policy for single‐parent families over those two decades. After the welfare reform of 2003, the economic autonomy of single mothers, established through a combination of welfare state‐based benefits and paid labour, was delegitimised, with a turn toward the marketplace. Using a unique data set cr…
Between Activation and Supporting Women – Alternative Operation of Welfare‐to‐work Programmes
With the emergence of activation policies, researchers are intrigued by the extent to which welfare‐to‐work ( WTW ) programmes reflect the ideological orientation of policymakers, while leaving the ideological orientation of their operators unexamined. This aspect may be of particular importance when women's non‐governmental organizations operate non‐coercive WTW programmes. Directing attention to the contribution of the operator, we ask how wome…
Stratified patterns of divorce
Despite evidence that divorce has become more prevalent among weaker socioeconomic groups, knowledge about the stratification aspects of divorce in Israel is lacking. Moreover, although scholarly debate recognizes the importance of stratificational positio
Stratified patterns of divorce
Despite evidence that divorce has become more prevalent among weaker socioeconomic groups, knowledge about the stratification aspects of divorce in Israel is lacking. Moreover, although scholarly debate recognizes the importance of stratificational positio
Welfare Mom as Warrior Mom
This study applies critical discourse analysis to the public discourse in Israel regarding the battle of single mothers against extensive welfare cuts. Using the protest of July 2003 as a case study, the article points to parallels between Israel's neo-liberal welfare discourse and that in the US, but also reveals a competing discourse in Israel that incorporated several basic cultural motifs: motherhood, militarism, Zionism and nationalism. Whil…
It was a Zionist act
Doing good motherhood
Between Activation and Supporting Women – Alternative Operation of Welfare‐to‐work Programmes
With the emergence of activation policies, researchers are intrigued by the extent to which welfare‐to‐work ( WTW ) programmes reflect the ideological orientation of policymakers, while leaving the ideological orientation of their operators unexamined. This aspect may be of particular importance when women's non‐governmental organizations operate non‐coercive WTW programmes. Directing attention to the contribution of the operator, we ask how wome…
(De)legitimization of single mothers’ welfare rights
This article contributes to the theoretical discussion of the historical legitimacy of single mothers by examining the construction of relationships between single motherhood and welfare policy. Specifically, the study analyses the changing discourse regarding single mothers, and the social policy designed for them, in the US, UK and Israel from the 1970s to the 2000s. These three countries are similar in terms of the embeddedness, extension and …
Do the Privileged Always Win? Economic Consequences of Divorce by Income and Gender Groups
Mothers' postdivorce earnings in the context of welfare policy change
We examined in this study the implications of divorce for mothers' earnings, comparing the 1990s and the 2000s, and illuminating developments in welfare policy for single‐parent families over those two decades. After the welfare reform of 2003, the economic autonomy of single mothers, established through a combination of welfare state‐based benefits and paid labour, was delegitimised, with a turn toward the marketplace. Using a unique data set cr…
The Economically Responsible Single Mum who Sees to her Future
In response to the economic vulnerability of single mothers and in keeping with a neoliberal ideology, many Western countries have encouraged increased labour-market participation, often through welfare-to-work (WTW) programmes. One practice adopted in these programmes is deepening knowledge of pension savings and increasing financial savviness. Feminist research points to women's lower economic status than men at retirement, especially divorcees…
Fragile Employment, Liquid Love
Discourse of need
Stratified patterns of adolescent employment and their relation to educational attainment
The study examines relations between adolescent employment and three aspects of higher education: beginning an undergraduate degree, completing the degree and type of institution (more prestigious university versus less prestigious college). Our research adds a new dimension to the concept of adolescent employment: the contribution of the adolescent's earnings to household income. This dimension links the earnings of the adolescent, as reflected …
Double jeopardy
Health and psychological distress implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for single mothers in Israel
The measures taken to stop the spread of COVID-19 pandemic may have severe economic, family and health consequences for socially vulnerable populations, such as single mothers. We assessed COVID-19 stressors (employment and economic changes and child-related worries) among a convenience sample of single mothers (n = 325), and examined their association with the mothers’ self-rated health (SRH) and psychological distress (symptoms of depression an…
Economic Abuse of Palestinian Mothers in Israel
Focusing on Palestinian mothers in Israel participating in a nonmandatory welfare-to-work program, the study addresses whether these women experience economic abuse from their intimate partner/ex-partner, as well as whether they perceive the program as an opportunity to escape economic abuse and move toward economic independence. Based on interviews of 26 mothers and three trainers, the findings revealed dual economic abuse: in the domestic spher…
Low-income mothers in an Israeli welfare-to-work program
Welfare-to-work (WTW) programs use role modeling rhetoric to re-educate mothers to prioritize paid employment over presence-based childcare. Research has shown that mothers may resist this rhetoric if, historically, policies in their countries shaped their sense of entitlement to be supported as mothers. But under what conditions does such resistance build a critical voice? What other voices emerge in the encounter with the WTW rhetoric? This art…
Mixed-ethnicity marriages and marital dissolution in Israel
This study examines the relation between mixed-ethnicity couples and marital dissolution in Israel, an ethnically stratified immigrant society, including Jews from different continents and Israeli Palestinians. Findings indicate that, when defined broadly, mixed-ethnicity couples have higher divorce risks than endogamous couples. However, comparing mixed and non-mixed couples in terms of specific ethnic categories reveals a more complex picture. …
The Legitimacy of Single Mothers in Israel Examined through Five Circles of Discourse
This study applies critical discourse analysis to examine the relationship between the imagery and the legitimacy attached to single mothers, as well as the social policy designed for them. The correlation between images, legitimacy, and policy was examined during three decades (the 1970s, 1990s, and 2000s) of extensive legislation pertaining to single-parent mothers. The data have been drawn from a diversity of sources, including Knesset debates…
It was a Zionist act
Discourse of need
The Legitimacy of Single Mothers in Israel Examined through Five Circles of Discourse
This study applies critical discourse analysis to examine the relationship between the imagery and the legitimacy attached to single mothers, as well as the social policy designed for them. The correlation between images, legitimacy, and policy was examined during three decades (the 1970s, 1990s, and 2000s) of extensive legislation pertaining to single-parent mothers. The data have been drawn from a diversity of sources, including Knesset debates…
Welfare Mom as Warrior Mom
This study applies critical discourse analysis to the public discourse in Israel regarding the battle of single mothers against extensive welfare cuts. Using the protest of July 2003 as a case study, the article points to parallels between Israel's neo-liberal welfare discourse and that in the US, but also reveals a competing discourse in Israel that incorporated several basic cultural motifs: motherhood, militarism, Zionism and nationalism. Whil…
Stratified patterns of divorce
Despite evidence that divorce has become more prevalent among weaker socioeconomic groups, knowledge about the stratification aspects of divorce in Israel is lacking. Moreover, although scholarly debate recognizes the importance of stratificational positio
Mothers' postdivorce earnings in the context of welfare policy change
We examined in this study the implications of divorce for mothers' earnings, comparing the 1990s and the 2000s, and illuminating developments in welfare policy for single‐parent families over those two decades. After the welfare reform of 2003, the economic autonomy of single mothers, established through a combination of welfare state‐based benefits and paid labour, was delegitimised, with a turn toward the marketplace. Using a unique data set cr…
Between Activation and Supporting Women – Alternative Operation of Welfare‐to‐work Programmes
With the emergence of activation policies, researchers are intrigued by the extent to which welfare‐to‐work ( WTW ) programmes reflect the ideological orientation of policymakers, while leaving the ideological orientation of their operators unexamined. This aspect may be of particular importance when women's non‐governmental organizations operate non‐coercive WTW programmes. Directing attention to the contribution of the operator, we ask how wome…
Mixed-ethnicity marriages and marital dissolution in Israel
This study examines the relation between mixed-ethnicity couples and marital dissolution in Israel, an ethnically stratified immigrant society, including Jews from different continents and Israeli Palestinians. Findings indicate that, when defined broadly, mixed-ethnicity couples have higher divorce risks than endogamous couples. However, comparing mixed and non-mixed couples in terms of specific ethnic categories reveals a more complex picture. …
Doing good motherhood
Fragile Employment, Liquid Love
Low-income mothers in an Israeli welfare-to-work program
Welfare-to-work (WTW) programs use role modeling rhetoric to re-educate mothers to prioritize paid employment over presence-based childcare. Research has shown that mothers may resist this rhetoric if, historically, policies in their countries shaped their sense of entitlement to be supported as mothers. But under what conditions does such resistance build a critical voice? What other voices emerge in the encounter with the WTW rhetoric? This art…
The Economically Responsible Single Mum who Sees to her Future
In response to the economic vulnerability of single mothers and in keeping with a neoliberal ideology, many Western countries have encouraged increased labour-market participation, often through welfare-to-work (WTW) programmes. One practice adopted in these programmes is deepening knowledge of pension savings and increasing financial savviness. Feminist research points to women's lower economic status than men at retirement, especially divorcees…
Economic Abuse of Palestinian Mothers in Israel
Focusing on Palestinian mothers in Israel participating in a nonmandatory welfare-to-work program, the study addresses whether these women experience economic abuse from their intimate partner/ex-partner, as well as whether they perceive the program as an opportunity to escape economic abuse and move toward economic independence. Based on interviews of 26 mothers and three trainers, the findings revealed dual economic abuse: in the domestic spher…
Journey to liberation
The study examines how young Palestinian women in Israel, who decide to settle in the “liberal” “world city” of Tel Aviv-Jaffa upon college graduation, cope with the anticipated response of their family and community of origin. Applying a qualitative methodology, we interviewed 12 such women, supplemented by analysis of two TV series about young, single, educated Israeli-Palestinians living away from home. Thematic analysis of the data sheds ligh…
Health and psychological distress implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for single mothers in Israel
The measures taken to stop the spread of COVID-19 pandemic may have severe economic, family and health consequences for socially vulnerable populations, such as single mothers. We assessed COVID-19 stressors (employment and economic changes and child-related worries) among a convenience sample of single mothers (n = 325), and examined their association with the mothers’ self-rated health (SRH) and psychological distress (symptoms of depression an…
(De)legitimization of single mothers’ welfare rights
This article contributes to the theoretical discussion of the historical legitimacy of single mothers by examining the construction of relationships between single motherhood and welfare policy. Specifically, the study analyses the changing discourse regarding single mothers, and the social policy designed for them, in the US, UK and Israel from the 1970s to the 2000s. These three countries are similar in terms of the embeddedness, extension and …
Palestinian mothers in Israel
This study analyzes the experience of Palestinian mothers in Israel participating in a non-mandatory welfare-to-work program. The goal is to explore the perceptions of these women and their trainers about the ways the program helps enhance the mothers' social capital. The study is based on in-depth interviews of 30 mothers and three trainers who participated in the program. The findings expose a range of mothers' voices. The three main ones are: …
Do the Privileged Always Win? Economic Consequences of Divorce by Income and Gender Groups
What’s Your Pension Story? Women’s Perspectives during the Covid-19 Pandemic on Their Old-Age Pension Status, Past and Present
This study examines the present and retrospective views of mothers who are nearing or are at retirement age regarding their economic status, pension planning, and perceptions of state pension policy. The paper addresses gaps in the literature on the cross-intersections of employment history, vulnerable economic retirement status, and marital and parental status, thereby adopting a life course perspective. Based on in-depth interviews of thirty-on…
Stratified patterns of adolescent employment and their relation to educational attainment
The study examines relations between adolescent employment and three aspects of higher education: beginning an undergraduate degree, completing the degree and type of institution (more prestigious university versus less prestigious college). Our research adds a new dimension to the concept of adolescent employment: the contribution of the adolescent's earnings to household income. This dimension links the earnings of the adolescent, as reflected …
Working Their Way to Young Adulthood
This study contributes to the theoretical and empirical debate on how adolescent employment affects later labour market resources. Specifically, we view such employment as having a complex relation with labour market outcomes in young adulthood, depending on the specific resource examined: the likelihood to be employed and the earnings level. Focusing on Israeli millennials, we used administrative longitudinal data from the Israel National Insura…
Double jeopardy
Adolescent employment, family income and parental divorce
Differences in economic consequences of union dissolution across gender and ethnic groups in Belgium and Israel
Motherhood as a Prism Shaping Financial Literacy for Retirement Among Generation Y Women
This qualitative study adopts a feminist perspective, delving into the cultural and moral dynamics inherent in financial literacy for retirement among Generation Y women in Israel. Employing the theoretical framework of gendered cultural schemas and focusing on the motherhood model, the research provides valuable insight into the social and moral forces that underlie young women’s financial literacy perceptions and actions regarding retirement in…
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