Maya Lavie-Ajayi
Biographic Data
| ID | 185846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maya Lavie-Ajayi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maya |
| FAMILY NAME | Lavie-Ajayi |
| SIGNATURE | LAVIE-AJAYI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel-Hai College, Israel |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Changes in ageing women’s sexual subjectivity as seen from a life course perspective: Security, Caring, and Desire
This article explores the sexual subjectivity of women of post-reproductive age who seek partners on dating apps. The existing literature highlights the sexual subjectivity and agency of older women as contested and not sufficiently investigated. Even less research has been conducted on changes in the sexual subjectivity of women born in the USSR in the 1960s, with the liberalisation of sexual behaviour. The study is based on 45 interviews with w…
Professional and Personal Attitudes toward Discussing Sexuality and Degree of Religiosity among Social Workers
This study investigated the correlations between social workers' levels of religiosity and their professional attitudes toward discussing sexual health. The focus was particularly on the potential mediating role of their attitudes to heteronormative beliefs. A random sample of 150 social workers from Israel (Jewish [63.3 percent], Palestinian-Arab [36 percent], and those who self-identified as "other" [0.7 percent]) completed a self-administered …
Our Fair Share of Risk-Taking and Bad Sex: A Dialogic Inquiry into Young Women's Sexual Agency
Our Fair Share of Risk-Taking and Bad Sex:A Dialogic Inquiry into Young Women's Sexual Agency Amal Ziv (bio) and Maya Lavie-Ajayi (bio) beginning Four decades ago, Amber Hollibaugh and Cherríe Moraga observed that the key feminist notion "the personal is political" was too easily forgotten when discussions turned to sexuality.1 Some may argue that this dismissal is no longer true in this moment regarded by many as the #MeToo era, with its intense…
The Social Construction of Cannabis in Social Work
The social construction of cannabis has important implications for policy, research, practice, and education in social work. The objective of this article is to chart the construction of cannabis in articles published in social work journals across the past half century. The author critically reviews empirical articles with references to cannabis published in 15 key social work journals between 1970 and 2018. Systematic searches resulted in a com…
Learning to See at the Intersections of Body, Gender, Geography, and Nationality
In this performance autoethnography, the writer explores how a person, a young woman, opens her eyes to the occupation of the Palestinian territories, patriarchal values, her social privilege and her positioning as both oppressed and as an oppressor. The writer attempts to sequence her personal and sexual biographies, while resisting the dichotomies of personal/political, privilege/oppressive, and pleasure/pain; contextualizing one's sexual, gend…
Intervention in a Real-Life Context: Therapeutic Space in Poverty-Aware Social Work
The spatial aspects of therapeutic intervention receive marginal attention in the practice and discourse of therapeutic professions. Currently, influenced by the classic Freudian tradition, the central therapeutic space of social workers and psychologists is the agency and the office. Despite the fact that models of home therapy have been developed over the years, its practice has remained marginal in the professional discourse. This article intr…
Disaffiliating From the Cult of the Fallen
This article is an autoethnographic exploration of how my family lives with the memory of my uncle, who was killed in service as an enlisted soldier of the Israeli Defense Force during the Yom Kippur War (also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War). This article considers how the memory of my uncle has been constructed through the yearly national cycle of military and family ceremonies. Participation in military ceremonies of this nature is a way fo…
Using Narratives to Understand the Adaptation Process of an Ethnic Migrant Group from a Resilience Perspective-a Case Study of Cochin Jews in Israel
Explicit Utopias: Rewriting the sexual in women’s pornography
Explicit Utopias: Rewriting the Sexual in Women’s Pornography, by the gender scholar Amalia Ziv, is an exploration of alternative pornography made by and for women during the 1980s and 1990s. The b
Refugees and asylum seekers from Darfur: The escape and life in Israel
The study explores the perspectives of asylum seekers from Darfur with regard to four stages of their journey: before leaving Sudan, their journey to Israel, living in Israel, and future plans. Group interviews were conducted with male participants. During the first stage, themes included the urgent need to run for their life and the transition from family life to being alone. During the second stage, themes included experiencing extreme conditio…
It Will Continue to Embarrass Me on Some Level, and I Think that’s OK’: Conceptualising Embarrassment in Discussions about Sex between Social Workers and Service Users
Research has consistently identified embarrassment as a barrier hindering communication about sex across a range of professions. This paper presents an in-depth exploration of embarrassment as an experience in discussion about everyday sexuality between social workers and service users. It is based on the interpretative phenomenological analysis of eleven semi-structured interviews with social workers, working across a range of services in Israel…
I Didn't Know I Was Isolated Until I Wasn't Isolated Any More: The Use of Groups in Qualitative Psychology Research
This article explore the use of groups as one way of conducting political research within psychology, and challenging the overindividualistic approach of most psychological studies and theories. Calling on her own research studies, the author explores the possibilities presented by groups to create social spaces, in which meaning and narratives are co-constructed in dynamic negotiation. Working with groups in a participatory and democratic proces…
In a different mindset: Critical youth work with marginalized youth
Social Representations of Female Orgasm
This study examines women's social representations of female orgasm. Fifty semi-structured interviews were conducted with British women. The data were thematically analysed and compared with the content of female orgasm-related writing in two women's magazines over a 30-year period. The results indicate that orgasm is deemed the goal of sex with emphasis on its physiological dimension. However, the women and the magazines graft onto this scientif…
Social Representations of Female Orgasm
This study examines women's social representations of female orgasm. Fifty semi-structured interviews were conducted with British women. The data were thematically analysed and compared with the content of female orgasm-related writing in two women's magazines over a 30-year period. The results indicate that orgasm is deemed the goal of sex with emphasis on its physiological dimension. However, the women and the magazines graft onto this scientif…
Refugees and asylum seekers from Darfur: The escape and life in Israel
The study explores the perspectives of asylum seekers from Darfur with regard to four stages of their journey: before leaving Sudan, their journey to Israel, living in Israel, and future plans. Group interviews were conducted with male participants. During the first stage, themes included the urgent need to run for their life and the transition from family life to being alone. During the second stage, themes included experiencing extreme conditio…
In a different mindset: Critical youth work with marginalized youth
Intervention in a Real-Life Context: Therapeutic Space in Poverty-Aware Social Work
The spatial aspects of therapeutic intervention receive marginal attention in the practice and discourse of therapeutic professions. Currently, influenced by the classic Freudian tradition, the central therapeutic space of social workers and psychologists is the agency and the office. Despite the fact that models of home therapy have been developed over the years, its practice has remained marginal in the professional discourse. This article intr…
Disaffiliating From the Cult of the Fallen
This article is an autoethnographic exploration of how my family lives with the memory of my uncle, who was killed in service as an enlisted soldier of the Israeli Defense Force during the Yom Kippur War (also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War). This article considers how the memory of my uncle has been constructed through the yearly national cycle of military and family ceremonies. Participation in military ceremonies of this nature is a way fo…
Using Narratives to Understand the Adaptation Process of an Ethnic Migrant Group from a Resilience Perspective-a Case Study of Cochin Jews in Israel
The Social Construction of Cannabis in Social Work
The social construction of cannabis has important implications for policy, research, practice, and education in social work. The objective of this article is to chart the construction of cannabis in articles published in social work journals across the past half century. The author critically reviews empirical articles with references to cannabis published in 15 key social work journals between 1970 and 2018. Systematic searches resulted in a com…
I Didn't Know I Was Isolated Until I Wasn't Isolated Any More: The Use of Groups in Qualitative Psychology Research
This article explore the use of groups as one way of conducting political research within psychology, and challenging the overindividualistic approach of most psychological studies and theories. Calling on her own research studies, the author explores the possibilities presented by groups to create social spaces, in which meaning and narratives are co-constructed in dynamic negotiation. Working with groups in a participatory and democratic proces…
Social Representations of Female Orgasm
This study examines women's social representations of female orgasm. Fifty semi-structured interviews were conducted with British women. The data were thematically analysed and compared with the content of female orgasm-related writing in two women's magazines over a 30-year period. The results indicate that orgasm is deemed the goal of sex with emphasis on its physiological dimension. However, the women and the magazines graft onto this scientif…
In a different mindset: Critical youth work with marginalized youth
I Didn't Know I Was Isolated Until I Wasn't Isolated Any More: The Use of Groups in Qualitative Psychology Research
This article explore the use of groups as one way of conducting political research within psychology, and challenging the overindividualistic approach of most psychological studies and theories. Calling on her own research studies, the author explores the possibilities presented by groups to create social spaces, in which meaning and narratives are co-constructed in dynamic negotiation. Working with groups in a participatory and democratic proces…
It Will Continue to Embarrass Me on Some Level, and I Think that’s OK’: Conceptualising Embarrassment in Discussions about Sex between Social Workers and Service Users
Research has consistently identified embarrassment as a barrier hindering communication about sex across a range of professions. This paper presents an in-depth exploration of embarrassment as an experience in discussion about everyday sexuality between social workers and service users. It is based on the interpretative phenomenological analysis of eleven semi-structured interviews with social workers, working across a range of services in Israel…
Explicit Utopias: Rewriting the sexual in women’s pornography
Explicit Utopias: Rewriting the Sexual in Women’s Pornography, by the gender scholar Amalia Ziv, is an exploration of alternative pornography made by and for women during the 1980s and 1990s. The b
Refugees and asylum seekers from Darfur: The escape and life in Israel
The study explores the perspectives of asylum seekers from Darfur with regard to four stages of their journey: before leaving Sudan, their journey to Israel, living in Israel, and future plans. Group interviews were conducted with male participants. During the first stage, themes included the urgent need to run for their life and the transition from family life to being alone. During the second stage, themes included experiencing extreme conditio…
Intervention in a Real-Life Context: Therapeutic Space in Poverty-Aware Social Work
The spatial aspects of therapeutic intervention receive marginal attention in the practice and discourse of therapeutic professions. Currently, influenced by the classic Freudian tradition, the central therapeutic space of social workers and psychologists is the agency and the office. Despite the fact that models of home therapy have been developed over the years, its practice has remained marginal in the professional discourse. This article intr…
Disaffiliating From the Cult of the Fallen
This article is an autoethnographic exploration of how my family lives with the memory of my uncle, who was killed in service as an enlisted soldier of the Israeli Defense Force during the Yom Kippur War (also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War). This article considers how the memory of my uncle has been constructed through the yearly national cycle of military and family ceremonies. Participation in military ceremonies of this nature is a way fo…
Using Narratives to Understand the Adaptation Process of an Ethnic Migrant Group from a Resilience Perspective-a Case Study of Cochin Jews in Israel
Learning to See at the Intersections of Body, Gender, Geography, and Nationality
In this performance autoethnography, the writer explores how a person, a young woman, opens her eyes to the occupation of the Palestinian territories, patriarchal values, her social privilege and her positioning as both oppressed and as an oppressor. The writer attempts to sequence her personal and sexual biographies, while resisting the dichotomies of personal/political, privilege/oppressive, and pleasure/pain; contextualizing one's sexual, gend…
The Social Construction of Cannabis in Social Work
The social construction of cannabis has important implications for policy, research, practice, and education in social work. The objective of this article is to chart the construction of cannabis in articles published in social work journals across the past half century. The author critically reviews empirical articles with references to cannabis published in 15 key social work journals between 1970 and 2018. Systematic searches resulted in a com…
Our Fair Share of Risk-Taking and Bad Sex: A Dialogic Inquiry into Young Women's Sexual Agency
Our Fair Share of Risk-Taking and Bad Sex:A Dialogic Inquiry into Young Women's Sexual Agency Amal Ziv (bio) and Maya Lavie-Ajayi (bio) beginning Four decades ago, Amber Hollibaugh and Cherríe Moraga observed that the key feminist notion "the personal is political" was too easily forgotten when discussions turned to sexuality.1 Some may argue that this dismissal is no longer true in this moment regarded by many as the #MeToo era, with its intense…
Professional and Personal Attitudes toward Discussing Sexuality and Degree of Religiosity among Social Workers
This study investigated the correlations between social workers' levels of religiosity and their professional attitudes toward discussing sexual health. The focus was particularly on the potential mediating role of their attitudes to heteronormative beliefs. A random sample of 150 social workers from Israel (Jewish [63.3 percent], Palestinian-Arab [36 percent], and those who self-identified as "other" [0.7 percent]) completed a self-administered …
Changes in ageing women’s sexual subjectivity as seen from a life course perspective: Security, Caring, and Desire
This article explores the sexual subjectivity of women of post-reproductive age who seek partners on dating apps. The existing literature highlights the sexual subjectivity and agency of older women as contested and not sufficiently investigated. Even less research has been conducted on changes in the sexual subjectivity of women born in the USSR in the 1960s, with the liberalisation of sexual behaviour. The study is based on 45 interviews with w…
Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Social science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Human sexuality (5 works)