Maya Tsfati
Biographic Data
| ID | 249570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maya Tsfati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maya |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsfati |
| SIGNATURE | TSFATI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5527-5584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Israeli Single Gay Fathers' Choice of Lone Parenthood via Surrogacy: A Qualitative Study
This article focuses on Israeli single gay fathers' reproductive choices. Thematic analysis of 13 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Israeli single gay fathers yielded two themes related to their reproductive choice. The first theme pertains to their decision to become single fathers. Three dimensions were prominent in the participants' decision to pursue lone parenthood: the choice to fulfill parenthood as gay men; the choice to separate p…
Between Vulnerability and Resilience: Parents of Transgender Young Adults
This study explores the lived experiences of Israeli parents of transgender young adults, depicting gender diversity as a family‐relational phenomenon. The analysis of 18 in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with Israeli parents of trans young adults suggests that the parents’ experiences were characterized by a dialectic between feelings of vulnerability and resilience. The parents’ vulnerability was shaped by their social positioning as a minor…
The Social Experiences of Single Gay Fathers in Israel: An Intersectional Perspective
Through an intersectional lens, this study explores the experience of being a single gay father by choice in Israeli society, which continues to view the traditional heterosexual two-parent family as the ideal. Analysis of 15 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with single gay Israeli fathers suggests that their experiences are characterized by constant tension between their self-perceived social acceptance and sense of belonging on the one hand…
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness
This article explores professional practices employed in services for transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness in Israel from the perspective of the service providers. The study combines individual interviews with focus groups with 28 staff members of three services. Thematic analysis of the interviews yielded two main themes. The first focuses on professional practices utilised in the services on the individual and inter-pers…
Lone parenthood in the Covid‐19 context: Israeli single gay fathers' perspective
This article focuses on Israeli single gay fathers, using the Stress Process Model (SPM) as a framework to investigate their fathering experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thematic analysis of 15 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Israeli single gay fathers during the third national lockdown revealed that their parenting experiences during the pandemic were shaped by both COVID-related stress exposure and interpersonal resources, which…
It is an endless love that makes you think only of his well-being’ – the experiences and accounts of ‘motherly love’ among Israeli mothers with transgender (trans) children
Little is known about the parenting experiences of mothers with trans young adults. Here, we conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 15 Israeli mothers of trans young adults (average age: 21.26) to examine their parenting experiences in terms of the motherly love concept. The mothers described their experiences under the motherly love concept, encompassing unconditional love, protection and self-sacrifice. The mothers presented how the…
Gay Israeli Fathers: Reframing Societal Views on Surrogacy
The present study aims to explore gay Israeli fathers' responses and resistance to societal criticism on their decision to become parents through transnational surrogacy. The authors interviewed 39 Israeli gay men who became parents via transnational gestational surrogacy using in-depth, semistructured interviews. Analysis of the interviews suggest that the gay fathers responded to societal perceptions on their choice of surrogacy, which they int…
Cultural adaptation – between the cultural and the political: Youth work in Israel’s unrecognised Bedouin villages
This article examines a programme for Bedouin youth in the unrecognised Bedouin villages in the Naqab/Negev desert in Israel, as a case study of the cultural adaptation and implementation of Westernised youth programmes among indigenous minority groups. Our analysis, based on an exploratory qualitative study that probes the accounts of 11 professionals involved in the project, 10 of whom are Bedouin, indicates that the facilitation of youth centr…
Stigma, resistance and hope: The experiences of parents of young transgender adults
The study depicts Israeli parents of young transgender (trans) adults as means of understanding the influence of stigma on the experiences and perceptions of parents of children who belong to social, including gender, minorities. The analysis of 18 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Israeli parents of young trans adults (mean age: 21.26), suggests that parents’ experiences are highly influenced by the stigma of gender diversity. The findin…
Fatherhood as a Spatial-Contextual Phenomenon: Israeli Gay Fathers through Surrogacy
This study aims to explore the experiences and accounts of Israeli gay fathers through surrogacy, with regard to contextual elements in general and geographical location in particular. Fourteen Jewish-Israeli gay fathers who became parents through surrogacy abroad were interviewed. Half of the participants live in Tel Aviv, and the other half live in the country's outlying areas in villages or relatively small towns. In-depth semi-structured inte…
Queering the periphery and challenging the center: Transgender students in Israeli higher education
This article discusses the experiences of Israeli trans students in higher education as a spatial phenomenon, demonstrating that their experiences are shaped by spatial locations – both geographic and cultural. Based on the thematic analysis of 20 in-depth interviews with Jewish Israeli transgender students from different spatial locations (‘central’ and ‘peripheral’ alike) and from varying academic fields and personal backgrounds, we maintain th…
Ethnocentrism, universalism, and refugees’ social rights: The Israeli perspective
This article is a pilot study in which we analyzed interviews with 16 inhabitants of the Tel Aviv area. We show that Israeli adults’ views of refugees are shaped by the political discourse of threat and otherness. Yet the findings also suggest that individuals may resist the prevailing discourse and advocate for refugees’ inclusion within Israeli society through the welfare regime. Thus, a gap is revealed between two perspectives that reflect cur…
The best period of my life: The academy as a Safe Haven for Israeli trans students
This article examines the experiences of Israeli trans students, revealing the meanings they ascribe to their social interactions in the academic environment and outside it. Based on an analysis of 20 semi-structured interviews with Israeli trans students studying in several academic institutions, we show that their experiences reflect their movement between two realms: one of risk and one of safety. These realms are inter-related because each he…
Between the Social and the Personal: Israeli Male Gay Parents, Surrogacy and Socio-Political Concepts of Parenthood and Gender
This work focuses on the effects of dominant concepts of parenthood and gender on gay men who became parents through surrogacy. Based on the analysis of 39 in-depth, semistructured interviews with gay fathers, we show that gay fathers' parenting experiences are shaped by the heteronormative discourse on parenthood, yet they resist its gendered attributes. Gay parenthood is revealed as confronting the social concepts on parenthood, in particular o…
Dualism, Tension, and Integration: Dialectics as a Theme of Integration in Daily Lives of Israeli Gay Men Who Became Fathers Through Overseas Surrogacy
This article explores the constructed meanings of lived experiences of Israeli gay men who became parents through commercial overseas surrogacy. Based on the analysis of 39 in-depth, semistructured interviews with gay fathers, we show that their parenting experiences are shaped in contradictory ways, allowing them to adopt a reflective position in relation to existing social frameworks. Data from in-depth interviews reveal three major themes. The…
Between subversion to re-affirmation: Homonormativism, Homonationalism and Male Same-Sex Family
This article focuses on Israeli male same-sex family, as a case study which provides an opportunity to understand the relationships between LGBT family, parenthood and the state. Based on the analysis of 39 in-depth semi-structured interviews with gay fathers, we show that although gay fathers use homonormative discourse they resist homonationalist ideology. This gap reflects the tension between compliance and subversion that shapes their experie…
Single gay fathers via surrogacy: The dialectics between vulnerability and resilience
The present study focuses on the experiences and constructed meanings of Israeli single gay fathers via surrogacy. Based on the analysis of 11 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with single gay fathers via surrogacy, we show that their parenting experiences are shaped in contradictory ways, allowing them to adopt a reflective position in relation to the dominant familial model. Data from in-depth interviews reveals two themes: The first: presen…
Israeli Single Gay Fathers' Choice of Lone Parenthood via Surrogacy: A Qualitative Study
This article focuses on Israeli single gay fathers' reproductive choices. Thematic analysis of 13 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Israeli single gay fathers yielded two themes related to their reproductive choice. The first theme pertains to their decision to become single fathers. Three dimensions were prominent in the participants' decision to pursue lone parenthood: the choice to fulfill parenthood as gay men; the choice to separate p…
Fatherhood as a Spatial-Contextual Phenomenon: Israeli Gay Fathers through Surrogacy
This study aims to explore the experiences and accounts of Israeli gay fathers through surrogacy, with regard to contextual elements in general and geographical location in particular. Fourteen Jewish-Israeli gay fathers who became parents through surrogacy abroad were interviewed. Half of the participants live in Tel Aviv, and the other half live in the country's outlying areas in villages or relatively small towns. In-depth semi-structured inte…
Stigma, resistance and hope: The experiences of parents of young transgender adults
The study depicts Israeli parents of young transgender (trans) adults as means of understanding the influence of stigma on the experiences and perceptions of parents of children who belong to social, including gender, minorities. The analysis of 18 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Israeli parents of young trans adults (mean age: 21.26), suggests that parents’ experiences are highly influenced by the stigma of gender diversity. The findin…
Ethnocentrism, universalism, and refugees’ social rights: The Israeli perspective
This article is a pilot study in which we analyzed interviews with 16 inhabitants of the Tel Aviv area. We show that Israeli adults’ views of refugees are shaped by the political discourse of threat and otherness. Yet the findings also suggest that individuals may resist the prevailing discourse and advocate for refugees’ inclusion within Israeli society through the welfare regime. Thus, a gap is revealed between two perspectives that reflect cur…
Single gay fathers via surrogacy: The dialectics between vulnerability and resilience
The present study focuses on the experiences and constructed meanings of Israeli single gay fathers via surrogacy. Based on the analysis of 11 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with single gay fathers via surrogacy, we show that their parenting experiences are shaped in contradictory ways, allowing them to adopt a reflective position in relation to the dominant familial model. Data from in-depth interviews reveals two themes: The first: presen…
Lone parenthood in the Covid‐19 context: Israeli single gay fathers' perspective
This article focuses on Israeli single gay fathers, using the Stress Process Model (SPM) as a framework to investigate their fathering experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thematic analysis of 15 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Israeli single gay fathers during the third national lockdown revealed that their parenting experiences during the pandemic were shaped by both COVID-related stress exposure and interpersonal resources, which…
Gay Israeli Fathers: Reframing Societal Views on Surrogacy
The present study aims to explore gay Israeli fathers' responses and resistance to societal criticism on their decision to become parents through transnational surrogacy. The authors interviewed 39 Israeli gay men who became parents via transnational gestational surrogacy using in-depth, semistructured interviews. Analysis of the interviews suggest that the gay fathers responded to societal perceptions on their choice of surrogacy, which they int…
Queering the periphery and challenging the center: Transgender students in Israeli higher education
This article discusses the experiences of Israeli trans students in higher education as a spatial phenomenon, demonstrating that their experiences are shaped by spatial locations – both geographic and cultural. Based on the thematic analysis of 20 in-depth interviews with Jewish Israeli transgender students from different spatial locations (‘central’ and ‘peripheral’ alike) and from varying academic fields and personal backgrounds, we maintain th…
Between subversion to re-affirmation: Homonormativism, Homonationalism and Male Same-Sex Family
This article focuses on Israeli male same-sex family, as a case study which provides an opportunity to understand the relationships between LGBT family, parenthood and the state. Based on the analysis of 39 in-depth semi-structured interviews with gay fathers, we show that although gay fathers use homonormative discourse they resist homonationalist ideology. This gap reflects the tension between compliance and subversion that shapes their experie…
Single gay fathers via surrogacy: The dialectics between vulnerability and resilience
The present study focuses on the experiences and constructed meanings of Israeli single gay fathers via surrogacy. Based on the analysis of 11 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with single gay fathers via surrogacy, we show that their parenting experiences are shaped in contradictory ways, allowing them to adopt a reflective position in relation to the dominant familial model. Data from in-depth interviews reveals two themes: The first: presen…
Between the Social and the Personal: Israeli Male Gay Parents, Surrogacy and Socio-Political Concepts of Parenthood and Gender
This work focuses on the effects of dominant concepts of parenthood and gender on gay men who became parents through surrogacy. Based on the analysis of 39 in-depth, semistructured interviews with gay fathers, we show that gay fathers' parenting experiences are shaped by the heteronormative discourse on parenthood, yet they resist its gendered attributes. Gay parenthood is revealed as confronting the social concepts on parenthood, in particular o…
Dualism, Tension, and Integration: Dialectics as a Theme of Integration in Daily Lives of Israeli Gay Men Who Became Fathers Through Overseas Surrogacy
This article explores the constructed meanings of lived experiences of Israeli gay men who became parents through commercial overseas surrogacy. Based on the analysis of 39 in-depth, semistructured interviews with gay fathers, we show that their parenting experiences are shaped in contradictory ways, allowing them to adopt a reflective position in relation to existing social frameworks. Data from in-depth interviews reveal three major themes. The…
Between subversion to re-affirmation: Homonormativism, Homonationalism and Male Same-Sex Family
This article focuses on Israeli male same-sex family, as a case study which provides an opportunity to understand the relationships between LGBT family, parenthood and the state. Based on the analysis of 39 in-depth semi-structured interviews with gay fathers, we show that although gay fathers use homonormative discourse they resist homonationalist ideology. This gap reflects the tension between compliance and subversion that shapes their experie…
Queering the periphery and challenging the center: Transgender students in Israeli higher education
This article discusses the experiences of Israeli trans students in higher education as a spatial phenomenon, demonstrating that their experiences are shaped by spatial locations – both geographic and cultural. Based on the thematic analysis of 20 in-depth interviews with Jewish Israeli transgender students from different spatial locations (‘central’ and ‘peripheral’ alike) and from varying academic fields and personal backgrounds, we maintain th…
Ethnocentrism, universalism, and refugees’ social rights: The Israeli perspective
This article is a pilot study in which we analyzed interviews with 16 inhabitants of the Tel Aviv area. We show that Israeli adults’ views of refugees are shaped by the political discourse of threat and otherness. Yet the findings also suggest that individuals may resist the prevailing discourse and advocate for refugees’ inclusion within Israeli society through the welfare regime. Thus, a gap is revealed between two perspectives that reflect cur…
The best period of my life: The academy as a Safe Haven for Israeli trans students
This article examines the experiences of Israeli trans students, revealing the meanings they ascribe to their social interactions in the academic environment and outside it. Based on an analysis of 20 semi-structured interviews with Israeli trans students studying in several academic institutions, we show that their experiences reflect their movement between two realms: one of risk and one of safety. These realms are inter-related because each he…
Cultural adaptation – between the cultural and the political: Youth work in Israel’s unrecognised Bedouin villages
This article examines a programme for Bedouin youth in the unrecognised Bedouin villages in the Naqab/Negev desert in Israel, as a case study of the cultural adaptation and implementation of Westernised youth programmes among indigenous minority groups. Our analysis, based on an exploratory qualitative study that probes the accounts of 11 professionals involved in the project, 10 of whom are Bedouin, indicates that the facilitation of youth centr…
Stigma, resistance and hope: The experiences of parents of young transgender adults
The study depicts Israeli parents of young transgender (trans) adults as means of understanding the influence of stigma on the experiences and perceptions of parents of children who belong to social, including gender, minorities. The analysis of 18 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Israeli parents of young trans adults (mean age: 21.26), suggests that parents’ experiences are highly influenced by the stigma of gender diversity. The findin…
Fatherhood as a Spatial-Contextual Phenomenon: Israeli Gay Fathers through Surrogacy
This study aims to explore the experiences and accounts of Israeli gay fathers through surrogacy, with regard to contextual elements in general and geographical location in particular. Fourteen Jewish-Israeli gay fathers who became parents through surrogacy abroad were interviewed. Half of the participants live in Tel Aviv, and the other half live in the country's outlying areas in villages or relatively small towns. In-depth semi-structured inte…
Between Vulnerability and Resilience: Parents of Transgender Young Adults
This study explores the lived experiences of Israeli parents of transgender young adults, depicting gender diversity as a family‐relational phenomenon. The analysis of 18 in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with Israeli parents of trans young adults suggests that the parents’ experiences were characterized by a dialectic between feelings of vulnerability and resilience. The parents’ vulnerability was shaped by their social positioning as a minor…
The Social Experiences of Single Gay Fathers in Israel: An Intersectional Perspective
Through an intersectional lens, this study explores the experience of being a single gay father by choice in Israeli society, which continues to view the traditional heterosexual two-parent family as the ideal. Analysis of 15 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with single gay Israeli fathers suggests that their experiences are characterized by constant tension between their self-perceived social acceptance and sense of belonging on the one hand…
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness
This article explores professional practices employed in services for transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness in Israel from the perspective of the service providers. The study combines individual interviews with focus groups with 28 staff members of three services. Thematic analysis of the interviews yielded two main themes. The first focuses on professional practices utilised in the services on the individual and inter-pers…
Lone parenthood in the Covid‐19 context: Israeli single gay fathers' perspective
This article focuses on Israeli single gay fathers, using the Stress Process Model (SPM) as a framework to investigate their fathering experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thematic analysis of 15 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Israeli single gay fathers during the third national lockdown revealed that their parenting experiences during the pandemic were shaped by both COVID-related stress exposure and interpersonal resources, which…
It is an endless love that makes you think only of his well-being’ – the experiences and accounts of ‘motherly love’ among Israeli mothers with transgender (trans) children
Little is known about the parenting experiences of mothers with trans young adults. Here, we conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 15 Israeli mothers of trans young adults (average age: 21.26) to examine their parenting experiences in terms of the motherly love concept. The mothers described their experiences under the motherly love concept, encompassing unconditional love, protection and self-sacrifice. The mothers presented how the…
Gay Israeli Fathers: Reframing Societal Views on Surrogacy
The present study aims to explore gay Israeli fathers' responses and resistance to societal criticism on their decision to become parents through transnational surrogacy. The authors interviewed 39 Israeli gay men who became parents via transnational gestational surrogacy using in-depth, semistructured interviews. Analysis of the interviews suggest that the gay fathers responded to societal perceptions on their choice of surrogacy, which they int…
Israeli Single Gay Fathers' Choice of Lone Parenthood via Surrogacy: A Qualitative Study
This article focuses on Israeli single gay fathers' reproductive choices. Thematic analysis of 13 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Israeli single gay fathers yielded two themes related to their reproductive choice. The first theme pertains to their decision to become single fathers. Three dimensions were prominent in the participants' decision to pursue lone parenthood: the choice to fulfill parenthood as gay men; the choice to separate p…
Sociology (17 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (10 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (7 works) · Politics (7 works)