K Lahad
Biographic Data
| ID | 18855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Lahad |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Lahad |
| SIGNATURE | LAHAD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1266-8457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The wonders of friendship: Experiencing affective intimacies beyond sequential temporalities
The notion of close friends being able to endure prolonged spatial and temporal separation and still feel as if no time has passed is a well-known trope. In this article, we explore such ‘wonders’ of friendship that escape linear and sequential expectations. Weaving together critical friendship studies and affect theory, we extend recent work on friendship temporalities, which has often adopted representational modes of analysis. Focusing on mome…
Till We Meet Again: Towards an Affective Sociology of Schedules
Drawing from studies of affect, this article explores how affect theory can inform how we theorise schedules. The notion of the schedule, of great interest to sociologists, has mostly been explored from a constructionist approach. The current article extends these readings, proposing the concepts of 'scheduling in motion' and 'affective scheduling', through which scheduling is explored as a relational and affective process. In doing so, it positi…
What happens when nothing happens? Affective nothingness at the margins of friendship ties
Is my best friend toxic? A textual analysis of online advice on difficult relationships
In this article, we analyse how mediated discourses of toxic friendships echo and reconstruct the category of the toxic friend. We ask: what kind of assumptions does the toxic friendship discourse draw on, and what forms of subjectivity and interpersonal relationships are encouraged? Employing a critical discourse analysis of digital texts, we argue that the discursive category of the toxic friend draws on a simplistic set of classificatory dicho…
It Is My Turn Now: How and Why 'Single' Women Complain about Non-Reciprocal Gift-Giving
This article employs the prism of gift-exchange to analyse the marginalised status of singles within social relations. We trace an emerging critique voiced by single women, who challenge the unilateral etiquette of gifting marital and family-making celebrations. While dominant social norms normalise gift-giving at weddings and subsequent family-related occasions, there are no commensurable opportunities for singles to receive back their accumulat…
Introduction: Affective Intimacies
This Special Issue offers a novel platform to rethink intimacies through the lens of affect theories. In particular, it introduces new ways of understanding affective intimacies, encompassing explo
Holding back and hidden family displays: Reflections on aunthood as a morally charged category
This article explores aunthood as a morally charged category. By conducting a thematic analysis, we analyse advice-seeking posts published in Dear Savvy Auntie, an American online advice forum for aunts. We examine the moral tales of aunthood and particularly why some aunts might feel that they cannot openly articulate their sense of responsibility within the family context, and the consequences of this. This leads us to assert that one way of 'd…
Happily-ever after: Self-marriage, the claim of wellness, and temporal ownership
The phenomenon commonly described as self-marriage is an exponentially growing trend in which individuals, mostly women, marry themselves. Drawing on a textual analysis of self-marriage accounts in online media, we argue that this concept denotes a new form of self-love and self-commitment - at the heart of which lies a wellness program, rather than a legal contract. This article explores this emergent concept, focusing on a notable, though not e…
Stop waiting! Hegemonic and alternative scripts of single women's subjectivity
The present article argues that despite growing rates of single living worldwide, alternative representations of the single women who do not necessarily spend their life 'waiting for the one' are regularly absent from public view. By exploring the injunction as well as the option of non-waiting, this paper contributes to time studies by stressing how understandings of waiting inform hegemonic and alternative forms of temporal subjectivity and soc…
The Involved Observer: A Simmelian Analysis of the Boundary Work of Aunthood
The aims of this article are to, first, empirically investigate the experiences of aunts, who to a large extent have been ignored by family sociologists. Second, we aim to add to the existing theorising of everyday family life by bringing Simmel's work - hitherto under-utilised in the field - into dialogue with the sociological literature on doing and negotiating families. Based on a textual analysis of online accounts posted on a US advice forum…
Doing and Displaying Gendered Boundary Work among Blended Families in Israel
This article seeks to introduce a more complex understanding of family change in Israel, through the case study of Israeli blended families. Going beyond the research on blended families in Israel and elsewhere, we wish to focus our analysis on how blended families are displayed in contemporary Israeli society. The analytical stress on displaying enables us to discern the fluidity and creativity in contemporary family life in Israel, as well as t…
A table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time
A Table for One explores the links between female singlehood and social time, juxtaposing two theoretical fields that are rarely linked: the social study of time and the study of singlehood. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book paves the way for a new theorisation of singlehood which will put it at the fore of deconstructive critical thinking and on the feminist agenda. Although the rise in the number of single-women households ha…
I don’t think this woman had anyone in her life’: Loneliness and singlehood in Six Feet Under
This article offers a critical analysis of representations of loneliness and singlehood, embodied in the narrative of the ‘old maid’s’ lonely death. The study contributes to a complex understanding of single women and the resignification of emotions conventionally ascribed to this category. By bridging the gap between two rarely linked bodies of knowledge – singlehood and the sociology of emotions – the authors do not ask what loneliness is , but…
Just One? Solo Dining, Gender and Temporal Belonging in Public Spaces
In recent years, various lifestyle websites have offered tips on eating out alone as well as lists of the best restaurants for solo dining in major cities of the world. Utilising the theoretical concepts of participation units, territories of the self (Goffman 1972[1971]) and belonging (May 2011, 2013), this paper explores the challenges that spatio-temporal conventions pose for women solo diners in particular. Through the lens of solo dining, we…
Like Having New Batteries Installed!”: Problematizing the Category of the “40+ Mother” in Contemporary Danish Media
In recent years, the phenomenon of the “40+ mother” has generated much media attention in Denmark. Within these discussions, 40+ mothers are regularly labelled as ridiculous, bad, or irresponsible, their access to assisted reproductive technologies is restricted, and their right to them is questioned. This rhetoric is explored here within the particular context of the Danish welfare state, which commonly takes pride in being family-friendly and i…
Singlehood in Treatment: Interrogating the discursive alliance between postfeminism and therapeutic culture
This article offers a critical discourse analysis of the Israeli television series In Treatment . The series unfolds the therapy sessions of a 40-year-old single female attorney with her therapist. The main objective of the study was to identify the scripted tactics or narrative strategies that establish and maintain singlehood. The findings indicate that the therapeutic discourse plays a central role in the construction and interpretation of sin…
The terror of the single old maid: On the insolubility of a cultural category
The Single Woman's Choice as a Zero-Sum Game
Cultural scholars are paying increasing attention to the ways in which choice has become a cultural obligation deeply ingrained in neoliberal, post-feminist, therapeutic and consumerist norms. Drawing insights from this literature, this paper first charts the changing discourse on choice, and then goes on to both examine and challenge the centrality of the rhetoric of choice in contemporary discourses of singlehood and single women. In my analysi…
Am I asking for too much?” The selective single woman as a new social problem
Singlehood, Waiting, and the Sociology of Time 1
This article explores how a temporal analysis of singlehood can contribute both to new conceptualizations of singlehood as well as to the study of social time. Prevalent interpretations of waiting single women offer a useful case study as they highlight the temporal organization of social life. Waiting is examined as an interactive setting representing and producing societal symbols, timetables, and collective schedules. Furthermore, this particu…
Singlehood, Waiting, and the Sociology of Time 1
This article explores how a temporal analysis of singlehood can contribute both to new conceptualizations of singlehood as well as to the study of social time. Prevalent interpretations of waiting single women offer a useful case study as they highlight the temporal organization of social life. Waiting is examined as an interactive setting representing and producing societal symbols, timetables, and collective schedules. Furthermore, this particu…
Stop waiting! Hegemonic and alternative scripts of single women's subjectivity
The present article argues that despite growing rates of single living worldwide, alternative representations of the single women who do not necessarily spend their life 'waiting for the one' are regularly absent from public view. By exploring the injunction as well as the option of non-waiting, this paper contributes to time studies by stressing how understandings of waiting inform hegemonic and alternative forms of temporal subjectivity and soc…
Am I asking for too much?” The selective single woman as a new social problem
The terror of the single old maid: On the insolubility of a cultural category
Holding back and hidden family displays: Reflections on aunthood as a morally charged category
This article explores aunthood as a morally charged category. By conducting a thematic analysis, we analyse advice-seeking posts published in Dear Savvy Auntie, an American online advice forum for aunts. We examine the moral tales of aunthood and particularly why some aunts might feel that they cannot openly articulate their sense of responsibility within the family context, and the consequences of this. This leads us to assert that one way of 'd…
The Involved Observer: A Simmelian Analysis of the Boundary Work of Aunthood
The aims of this article are to, first, empirically investigate the experiences of aunts, who to a large extent have been ignored by family sociologists. Second, we aim to add to the existing theorising of everyday family life by bringing Simmel's work - hitherto under-utilised in the field - into dialogue with the sociological literature on doing and negotiating families. Based on a textual analysis of online accounts posted on a US advice forum…
Introduction: Affective Intimacies
This Special Issue offers a novel platform to rethink intimacies through the lens of affect theories. In particular, it introduces new ways of understanding affective intimacies, encompassing explo
Just One? Solo Dining, Gender and Temporal Belonging in Public Spaces
In recent years, various lifestyle websites have offered tips on eating out alone as well as lists of the best restaurants for solo dining in major cities of the world. Utilising the theoretical concepts of participation units, territories of the self (Goffman 1972[1971]) and belonging (May 2011, 2013), this paper explores the challenges that spatio-temporal conventions pose for women solo diners in particular. Through the lens of solo dining, we…
Like Having New Batteries Installed!”: Problematizing the Category of the “40+ Mother” in Contemporary Danish Media
In recent years, the phenomenon of the “40+ mother” has generated much media attention in Denmark. Within these discussions, 40+ mothers are regularly labelled as ridiculous, bad, or irresponsible, their access to assisted reproductive technologies is restricted, and their right to them is questioned. This rhetoric is explored here within the particular context of the Danish welfare state, which commonly takes pride in being family-friendly and i…
Is my best friend toxic? A textual analysis of online advice on difficult relationships
In this article, we analyse how mediated discourses of toxic friendships echo and reconstruct the category of the toxic friend. We ask: what kind of assumptions does the toxic friendship discourse draw on, and what forms of subjectivity and interpersonal relationships are encouraged? Employing a critical discourse analysis of digital texts, we argue that the discursive category of the toxic friend draws on a simplistic set of classificatory dicho…
Doing and Displaying Gendered Boundary Work among Blended Families in Israel
This article seeks to introduce a more complex understanding of family change in Israel, through the case study of Israeli blended families. Going beyond the research on blended families in Israel and elsewhere, we wish to focus our analysis on how blended families are displayed in contemporary Israeli society. The analytical stress on displaying enables us to discern the fluidity and creativity in contemporary family life in Israel, as well as t…
Singlehood in Treatment: Interrogating the discursive alliance between postfeminism and therapeutic culture
This article offers a critical discourse analysis of the Israeli television series In Treatment . The series unfolds the therapy sessions of a 40-year-old single female attorney with her therapist. The main objective of the study was to identify the scripted tactics or narrative strategies that establish and maintain singlehood. The findings indicate that the therapeutic discourse plays a central role in the construction and interpretation of sin…
It Is My Turn Now: How and Why 'Single' Women Complain about Non-Reciprocal Gift-Giving
This article employs the prism of gift-exchange to analyse the marginalised status of singles within social relations. We trace an emerging critique voiced by single women, who challenge the unilateral etiquette of gifting marital and family-making celebrations. While dominant social norms normalise gift-giving at weddings and subsequent family-related occasions, there are no commensurable opportunities for singles to receive back their accumulat…
I don’t think this woman had anyone in her life’: Loneliness and singlehood in Six Feet Under
This article offers a critical analysis of representations of loneliness and singlehood, embodied in the narrative of the ‘old maid’s’ lonely death. The study contributes to a complex understanding of single women and the resignification of emotions conventionally ascribed to this category. By bridging the gap between two rarely linked bodies of knowledge – singlehood and the sociology of emotions – the authors do not ask what loneliness is , but…
Happily-ever after: Self-marriage, the claim of wellness, and temporal ownership
The phenomenon commonly described as self-marriage is an exponentially growing trend in which individuals, mostly women, marry themselves. Drawing on a textual analysis of self-marriage accounts in online media, we argue that this concept denotes a new form of self-love and self-commitment - at the heart of which lies a wellness program, rather than a legal contract. This article explores this emergent concept, focusing on a notable, though not e…
Singlehood, Waiting, and the Sociology of Time 1
This article explores how a temporal analysis of singlehood can contribute both to new conceptualizations of singlehood as well as to the study of social time. Prevalent interpretations of waiting single women offer a useful case study as they highlight the temporal organization of social life. Waiting is examined as an interactive setting representing and producing societal symbols, timetables, and collective schedules. Furthermore, this particu…
The Single Woman's Choice as a Zero-Sum Game
Cultural scholars are paying increasing attention to the ways in which choice has become a cultural obligation deeply ingrained in neoliberal, post-feminist, therapeutic and consumerist norms. Drawing insights from this literature, this paper first charts the changing discourse on choice, and then goes on to both examine and challenge the centrality of the rhetoric of choice in contemporary discourses of singlehood and single women. In my analysi…
Am I asking for too much?” The selective single woman as a new social problem
The terror of the single old maid: On the insolubility of a cultural category
Singlehood in Treatment: Interrogating the discursive alliance between postfeminism and therapeutic culture
This article offers a critical discourse analysis of the Israeli television series In Treatment . The series unfolds the therapy sessions of a 40-year-old single female attorney with her therapist. The main objective of the study was to identify the scripted tactics or narrative strategies that establish and maintain singlehood. The findings indicate that the therapeutic discourse plays a central role in the construction and interpretation of sin…
Like Having New Batteries Installed!”: Problematizing the Category of the “40+ Mother” in Contemporary Danish Media
In recent years, the phenomenon of the “40+ mother” has generated much media attention in Denmark. Within these discussions, 40+ mothers are regularly labelled as ridiculous, bad, or irresponsible, their access to assisted reproductive technologies is restricted, and their right to them is questioned. This rhetoric is explored here within the particular context of the Danish welfare state, which commonly takes pride in being family-friendly and i…
A table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time
A Table for One explores the links between female singlehood and social time, juxtaposing two theoretical fields that are rarely linked: the social study of time and the study of singlehood. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book paves the way for a new theorisation of singlehood which will put it at the fore of deconstructive critical thinking and on the feminist agenda. Although the rise in the number of single-women households ha…
I don’t think this woman had anyone in her life’: Loneliness and singlehood in Six Feet Under
This article offers a critical analysis of representations of loneliness and singlehood, embodied in the narrative of the ‘old maid’s’ lonely death. The study contributes to a complex understanding of single women and the resignification of emotions conventionally ascribed to this category. By bridging the gap between two rarely linked bodies of knowledge – singlehood and the sociology of emotions – the authors do not ask what loneliness is , but…
Just One? Solo Dining, Gender and Temporal Belonging in Public Spaces
In recent years, various lifestyle websites have offered tips on eating out alone as well as lists of the best restaurants for solo dining in major cities of the world. Utilising the theoretical concepts of participation units, territories of the self (Goffman 1972[1971]) and belonging (May 2011, 2013), this paper explores the challenges that spatio-temporal conventions pose for women solo diners in particular. Through the lens of solo dining, we…
Doing and Displaying Gendered Boundary Work among Blended Families in Israel
This article seeks to introduce a more complex understanding of family change in Israel, through the case study of Israeli blended families. Going beyond the research on blended families in Israel and elsewhere, we wish to focus our analysis on how blended families are displayed in contemporary Israeli society. The analytical stress on displaying enables us to discern the fluidity and creativity in contemporary family life in Israel, as well as t…
Stop waiting! Hegemonic and alternative scripts of single women's subjectivity
The present article argues that despite growing rates of single living worldwide, alternative representations of the single women who do not necessarily spend their life 'waiting for the one' are regularly absent from public view. By exploring the injunction as well as the option of non-waiting, this paper contributes to time studies by stressing how understandings of waiting inform hegemonic and alternative forms of temporal subjectivity and soc…
The Involved Observer: A Simmelian Analysis of the Boundary Work of Aunthood
The aims of this article are to, first, empirically investigate the experiences of aunts, who to a large extent have been ignored by family sociologists. Second, we aim to add to the existing theorising of everyday family life by bringing Simmel's work - hitherto under-utilised in the field - into dialogue with the sociological literature on doing and negotiating families. Based on a textual analysis of online accounts posted on a US advice forum…
Happily-ever after: Self-marriage, the claim of wellness, and temporal ownership
The phenomenon commonly described as self-marriage is an exponentially growing trend in which individuals, mostly women, marry themselves. Drawing on a textual analysis of self-marriage accounts in online media, we argue that this concept denotes a new form of self-love and self-commitment - at the heart of which lies a wellness program, rather than a legal contract. This article explores this emergent concept, focusing on a notable, though not e…
Introduction: Affective Intimacies
This Special Issue offers a novel platform to rethink intimacies through the lens of affect theories. In particular, it introduces new ways of understanding affective intimacies, encompassing explo
Holding back and hidden family displays: Reflections on aunthood as a morally charged category
This article explores aunthood as a morally charged category. By conducting a thematic analysis, we analyse advice-seeking posts published in Dear Savvy Auntie, an American online advice forum for aunts. We examine the moral tales of aunthood and particularly why some aunts might feel that they cannot openly articulate their sense of responsibility within the family context, and the consequences of this. This leads us to assert that one way of 'd…
Is my best friend toxic? A textual analysis of online advice on difficult relationships
In this article, we analyse how mediated discourses of toxic friendships echo and reconstruct the category of the toxic friend. We ask: what kind of assumptions does the toxic friendship discourse draw on, and what forms of subjectivity and interpersonal relationships are encouraged? Employing a critical discourse analysis of digital texts, we argue that the discursive category of the toxic friend draws on a simplistic set of classificatory dicho…
It Is My Turn Now: How and Why 'Single' Women Complain about Non-Reciprocal Gift-Giving
This article employs the prism of gift-exchange to analyse the marginalised status of singles within social relations. We trace an emerging critique voiced by single women, who challenge the unilateral etiquette of gifting marital and family-making celebrations. While dominant social norms normalise gift-giving at weddings and subsequent family-related occasions, there are no commensurable opportunities for singles to receive back their accumulat…
Till We Meet Again: Towards an Affective Sociology of Schedules
Drawing from studies of affect, this article explores how affect theory can inform how we theorise schedules. The notion of the schedule, of great interest to sociologists, has mostly been explored from a constructionist approach. The current article extends these readings, proposing the concepts of 'scheduling in motion' and 'affective scheduling', through which scheduling is explored as a relational and affective process. In doing so, it positi…
What happens when nothing happens? Affective nothingness at the margins of friendship ties
The wonders of friendship: Experiencing affective intimacies beyond sequential temporalities
The notion of close friends being able to endure prolonged spatial and temporal separation and still feel as if no time has passed is a well-known trope. In this article, we explore such ‘wonders’ of friendship that escape linear and sequential expectations. Weaving together critical friendship studies and affect theory, we extend recent work on friendship temporalities, which has often adopted representational modes of analysis. Focusing on mome…
Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Subjectivity (6 works)