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Einat Lachover

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ID327733
NAMEEinat Lachover
GIVEN NAMESEinat
FAMILY NAMELachover
SIGNATURELACHOVER E
AFFILIATIONSSapir College
ORCID0000-0002-6503-6675
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS71
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5
  • Identity as barrier, identity as resource: Intersectional exclusion and agency among minority women journalists

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2026

  • Between screens and sirens: Faculty experiences of emergency remote teaching during wartime

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Teaching and Teacher Education•2026

  • Silenced accents: Linguistic exclusion of minority women journalists in mainstream newsrooms

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Language & Communication•2026

  • Crossing gender borders and performing national belonging among Israeli-Palestinian women journalists

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•The Communication Review•2026

  • Rebel History: The Feminist Illustrated Biographical Dictionary as a Genre

    Open Access•Shai Rudin, Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Children s Literature in Education•2025

  • From Lifestyle to War Stories: Navigating National Crisis in Women’s Magazines in Wartime

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2025•References: 7

  • Is feminism an asset or a burden? Media coverage of an Israeli feminist woman politician

    Einat Lachover, Sofia Haytin•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2025•References: 21

    In the context of the current high visibility of feminist discourse, this study focuses on the media coverage of Merav Michaeli, a female Israeli politician who led a feminist campaign during the 2021 parliamentary elections. Based on a quantitative and interpretative analysis of Michaeli’s media coverage in the 2021 election, the study examines whether and how feminist ideas have become media values in political coverage. The quantitative analys…

  • Women to grow up with: Transnational feminism in empowering biographies for girls

    Open Access•Einat Lachover, Shai Rudin•ARTICLE•Cogent Social Sciences•2024

    This article examines the case study of Real-Life Legends: 50 Women to Grow Up with in Israel, a local anthology published in 2019 as part of the global trend of women's biographical collections aimed at empowering girls.Investigating the dissemination of current feminist ideas in global popular culture within a specific cultural context, the study analyzes the selection of featured women, their biographical narratives, and the book's creation pr…

  • Negotiating between gender, national and professional identities: The work-experience of Israeli-Palestinian women journalists

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Ethnicities•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 27

    This paper analyzes the work experience of Israeli-Palestinian women journalists who reside and work in Israel for local news organizations or non-Israeli news agencies. It focuses on their experiences related to the intersected axes of their gender, ethnic, and national identities. Through thematic analysis of narrative interviews with 24 Palestinian women journalists, the study reveals that their work experiences vary between exclusion and incl…

  • Visibility, Inclusion, and exclusion: Three generations of Russian-Israeli women journalists

    Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Journal of Gender Studies•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 22

    This study focuses on Russian-Israeli women journalists who resettled in Israel during the mass wave of immigrations from the Former Soviet Union in the 1990s. More specifically, it examines their experience of intersecting exclusion due to gender, ethnicity, and immigrant status. Based on narrative interviews with 18 Russian-Israeli women journalists, the study conceptualizes how their complex subjectivities emerge in their journalistic work. Th…

  • Online Interview Shocks: Reflecting on Power Relations in Online Qualitative Interviews

    Open Access•Ayelet Prior, Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 34

    The use of online camera-based interviews (OCBI) in qualitative studies is increasing. While recent studies have addressed the benefits and limitations of this method, scholarship still lacks an understanding of it beyond the technicalities. The present study explores how the online setting shapes power relations in qualitative OCBI. The data includes 52 OCBI that were conducted in two different qualitative studies. By applying the concept of int…

  • Gendered National Memory on Israeli Postage Stamps: From Gender Blindness to Feminist Commemoration

    Einat Lachover, Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler•ARTICLE•Israeli Studies Review•2022•References: 11

    In this article we focus on the gendered national construction on Israeli stamps commemorating renowned women over the course of Israel's history. We analyze gender construction on both the selection of the stamps and in their design. Based on analyses of the social role of women in Israeli historiography, archival documents, interviews with fourteen key figures involved in conceiving and designing the stamps, and the way stamp design constructs …

  • Gendered Memory and Miniaturization in Graphic Design: Representations of Women on Israeli Postage Stamps

    Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Design Issues•2021

    This research investigates postage stamps as a communication design medium that has a key role in the construction of national gendered commemoration. By examining the commemorative depiction of women on Israeli postage stamps, we analyze approaches to miniaturization and discuss graphic design's implications for the visual articulation of gender within national culture. We further discuss the impact of technological transformations and digitizat…

  • Successful” identity transformation: The representation of Israeli post-Soviet immigrant women in La’isha

    Yulia Shevchenko, Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 11

    This article draws on a special issue of La’isha, Israel’s most popular women’s magazine, to study media representations of post-Soviet women. The March 2020 issue, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel of the 1990s, focused on 1.5 generation post-Soviet women. Past studies suggest that first-generation post-Soviet women in Israel are represented as morally and socially fragmented. In …

  • Ethiopian-Israeli women working in mainstream journalism: Linking Ethiopian, black and Israeli identities through news-making

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Journalism•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 13

    Taking an intersectional approach, this study conceptualizes how the complex subjectivities of Ethiopian-Israeli women journalists – who contend with dual exclusion and discrimination (racial and gendered) – emerge in their everyday work experiences. Thematic analysis of narrative interviews with 12 Ethiopian-Israeli women journalists reveals a complicated picture of their professional experience derived from the intersection of their gender and …

  • The authentic conservative Wonder Woman: Israeli girls negotiating global and local meanings of femininity

    Einat Lachover, Shosh Davidson et al.•ARTICLE•Celebrity Studies•2021•References: 39

    Girls in Western societies are increasingly exposed to feminist ideas, often led by women celebrities. The current study explores how Israeli girls negotiate feminist concepts such as ‘girl power’ and ‘feminine success’ by examining their responses to Wonder Woman – a film that is part of this ‘feminist zeitgeist’ – and its Israeli actress, Gal Gadot. The paper documents the voices of hegemonic Israeli girls aged 13 to 15 in ten focus groups, and…

  • Multiplicity of feminisms: Discourse on women’s paid work in the popular Israeli women’s magazine La’isha during second-wave feminism

    Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2020•References: 10

    Study of the cultural discourse around women’s paid work in Israel is limited, and until now research has ignored its early periods and dynamics. This paper focuses on Israel’s third decade, 1967–1977, when women, including mothers, were for the first time encouraged to work outside the home. Using feminist critical discourse analysis, I examine La’isha (For the woman), Israel’s veteran commercial women’s magazine, which has self-declared its nat…

  • From research on girls to girlhood studies: Exploring Israeli girlhood studies from an international and historical perspective

    Open Access•Einat Lachover, Heidi Preis et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Women s Studies•2019

    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…

  • Constructions of girls’ bodies in Israeli academic literature: A critical scoping review

    Einat Peled, Einat Lachover et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Gender Studies•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    This scoping review offers an opportunity to examine the spread and reclaiming of feminist theoretical tenets in a central domain of youth studies. We examined critically the development of the academic literature on Israeli girls and their bodies, based on a girlhood studies perspective. Data consisted of the 255 academic works (articles, book chapters and graduate theses) published on the topic since Israel’s inception. The analysed variables i…

  • Women in Israeli journalism: Forwards and Backwards

    Einat Lachover, Dafna Lemish•ARTICLE•Israel Affairs•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 6

    This article presents findings from investigations of acclaimed gender employment changes in Israeli journalism, focusing on two main questions: Is the feminisation process of Israeli journalism continuing? Is it improving women’s employment and occupational status? Data were gathered from two international surveys that included Israel. The study found that while women are integrated in a variety of news areas, such as news presentation, and play…

  • Conservative and alternative motherhood in popular Israeli TV series

    Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    The present study analyzes the models of motherhood reflected and constructed in two popular Israeli television series that center around mothers. The analysis reveals the change in social norms and values regarding the institution of motherhood in Israel, while also shedding light on the construction, reproduction, and distribution of the dominant and alternative discourses of motherhood in neoliberal countries, and the global diversity of this …

  • The mommy wars: On the home front and waged abroad

    Linda Steiner, Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” published in 2012, generated huge response, well beyond what already has become typical in the intensifying mommy wars in the United States. It also drew considerable attention globally. Within one week of publication, Slaughter’s “lament” attracted a million readers. Slaughter’s explanation of why she quit her high powered job, and then Yahoo’s choice of the then-pregna…

  • Signs of change in media representation of women in Israeli politics: Leading and peripheral women contenders

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Journalism•2015•Cited by: 11•References: 5

    The study seeks to examine gender portrayal of Israeli women politicians, and specifically that of candidates for Israel’s parliament on televised news and in print in the elections of 2013. The study is based on an interpretive analysis of all news items wherein the women candidates are mentioned during the month preceding the elections. This study joins recent studies that point to a change in how women politicians are portrayed in the media. L…

  • Jewish-Israeli Girls' Online Discourse about International Women's Day: Post-feminism or “feminist insensibility”

    Einat Lachover, Carmel L Vaisman•ARTICLE•Journal of Children and Media•2014

    This study analyzes the discourse of feminine and feminist identity among Jewish-Israeli girls as expressed over the Internet. The research questions are: What type of feminine identity is exhibited among Jewish-Israeli girls? What is the nature of their feminist identity? And what role does the Internet play in giving expression to these identities? The study focuses on discourse published on 44 blogs of girls on the occasion of International Wo…

  • Israeli stamps 1948–2010: Between nationalism and cosmopolitanism

    Einat Lachover, Dalia Gavriely Nuri•ARTICLE•Israel Affairs•2013•Cited by: 5

    An examination of 1012 stamps issued by Israel from May 1948 to June 2010 reveals a degree of fluctuation between national and cosmopolitan themes, with a significant rise towards cosmopolitanism in the second decade and an increase in nationalism in the third. Cosmopolitan themes again showed modest growth in the fourth decade, and have been rising steadily, if moderately, since 1988. The findings suggest that Israeli stamp issues constitute an …

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  • The gendered and sexualized relationship between Israeli women journalists and their male news sources

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Journalism•2005•Cited by: 19•References: 2

    This article studies the ways in which the interactions between female Israeli journalists and their male news sources are gendered and sexually structured. The article is grounded in feminist critiques of journalism as well as feminist organizational and work studies and it is based on examination of the narratives of individual experiences of 32 female Israeli journalists, working for 10 newspapers. I set forth the attitudes of the male sources…

  • Signs of change in media representation of women in Israeli politics: Leading and peripheral women contenders

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Journalism•2015•Cited by: 11•References: 5

    The study seeks to examine gender portrayal of Israeli women politicians, and specifically that of candidates for Israel’s parliament on televised news and in print in the elections of 2013. The study is based on an interpretive analysis of all news items wherein the women candidates are mentioned during the month preceding the elections. This study joins recent studies that point to a change in how women politicians are portrayed in the media. L…

  • Just Being a Woman Isn't Enough Any More: Israeli television news of women in local politics

    Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2011•Cited by: 7•References: 7

    This study focuses on TV news coverage of women in the local elections held in Israel in 2008. The questions posed were: Did national TV news in Israel during the election campaign reflect the changes in the status of women in local politics that have occurred in the last two decades? How prominent was the representation of women politicians in national TV news coverage and what patterns did it display? The sample used in the study consisted of a…

  • Ethiopian-Israeli women working in mainstream journalism: Linking Ethiopian, black and Israeli identities through news-making

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Journalism•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 13

    Taking an intersectional approach, this study conceptualizes how the complex subjectivities of Ethiopian-Israeli women journalists – who contend with dual exclusion and discrimination (racial and gendered) – emerge in their everyday work experiences. Thematic analysis of narrative interviews with 12 Ethiopian-Israeli women journalists reveals a complicated picture of their professional experience derived from the intersection of their gender and …

  • Women in Israeli journalism: Forwards and Backwards

    Einat Lachover, Dafna Lemish•ARTICLE•Israel Affairs•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 6

    This article presents findings from investigations of acclaimed gender employment changes in Israeli journalism, focusing on two main questions: Is the feminisation process of Israeli journalism continuing? Is it improving women’s employment and occupational status? Data were gathered from two international surveys that included Israel. The study found that while women are integrated in a variety of news areas, such as news presentation, and play…

  • Israeli stamps 1948–2010: Between nationalism and cosmopolitanism

    Einat Lachover, Dalia Gavriely Nuri•ARTICLE•Israel Affairs•2013•Cited by: 5

    An examination of 1012 stamps issued by Israel from May 1948 to June 2010 reveals a degree of fluctuation between national and cosmopolitan themes, with a significant rise towards cosmopolitanism in the second decade and an increase in nationalism in the third. Cosmopolitan themes again showed modest growth in the fourth decade, and have been rising steadily, if moderately, since 1988. The findings suggest that Israeli stamp issues constitute an …

  • Successful” identity transformation: The representation of Israeli post-Soviet immigrant women in La’isha

    Yulia Shevchenko, Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 11

    This article draws on a special issue of La’isha, Israel’s most popular women’s magazine, to study media representations of post-Soviet women. The March 2020 issue, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel of the 1990s, focused on 1.5 generation post-Soviet women. Past studies suggest that first-generation post-Soviet women in Israel are represented as morally and socially fragmented. In …

  • Reframing the Past as a Cosmopolitan Memory: Obituaries in the Israeli Daily Haaretz

    Open Access•Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, Dalia Gavriely‐nuri et al.•ARTICLE•Communication Theory•2012•Cited by: 3•References: 23

    The global era presents a challenge for all memory agents for they are now faced with the task of constructing collective memories that maintain new contemporary values, most notably sensitivity to other nations' memories. This article deals with a major question flowing from the aforementioned task: Is it possible to reframe the past as a “cosmopolitan memory” for the purpose of promoting solidarity and peace? The article provides preliminary ev…

  • Visibility, Inclusion, and exclusion: Three generations of Russian-Israeli women journalists

    Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Journal of Gender Studies•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 22

    This study focuses on Russian-Israeli women journalists who resettled in Israel during the mass wave of immigrations from the Former Soviet Union in the 1990s. More specifically, it examines their experience of intersecting exclusion due to gender, ethnicity, and immigrant status. Based on narrative interviews with 18 Russian-Israeli women journalists, the study conceptualizes how their complex subjectivities emerge in their journalistic work. Th…

  • Online Interview Shocks: Reflecting on Power Relations in Online Qualitative Interviews

    Open Access•Ayelet Prior, Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 34

    The use of online camera-based interviews (OCBI) in qualitative studies is increasing. While recent studies have addressed the benefits and limitations of this method, scholarship still lacks an understanding of it beyond the technicalities. The present study explores how the online setting shapes power relations in qualitative OCBI. The data includes 52 OCBI that were conducted in two different qualitative studies. By applying the concept of int…

  • A Beautiful Campaign: Analysis of public discourses in Israel surrounding the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty

    Einat Lachover, Sigal Barak-Brandes et al.•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2009•Cited by: 2•References: 2

    Dove's “real women” ads reached Israel in 2006. Part of a campaign with a social message, they aimed at changing society's stereotypical image of women, expanding the definition of beauty, empowering women, and generating public debate of these issues. This paper examines the discourse that emerged in Israel in two arenas: the Internet forum on the company's website and the media. It seeks to answer the questions: how successful was the campaign'…

  • Negotiating between gender, national and professional identities: The work-experience of Israeli-Palestinian women journalists

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Ethnicities•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 27

    This paper analyzes the work experience of Israeli-Palestinian women journalists who reside and work in Israel for local news organizations or non-Israeli news agencies. It focuses on their experiences related to the intersected axes of their gender, ethnic, and national identities. Through thematic analysis of narrative interviews with 24 Palestinian women journalists, the study reveals that their work experiences vary between exclusion and incl…

  • Constructions of girls’ bodies in Israeli academic literature: A critical scoping review

    Einat Peled, Einat Lachover et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Gender Studies•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    This scoping review offers an opportunity to examine the spread and reclaiming of feminist theoretical tenets in a central domain of youth studies. We examined critically the development of the academic literature on Israeli girls and their bodies, based on a girlhood studies perspective. Data consisted of the 255 academic works (articles, book chapters and graduate theses) published on the topic since Israel’s inception. The analysed variables i…

  • Conservative and alternative motherhood in popular Israeli TV series

    Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    The present study analyzes the models of motherhood reflected and constructed in two popular Israeli television series that center around mothers. The analysis reveals the change in social norms and values regarding the institution of motherhood in Israel, while also shedding light on the construction, reproduction, and distribution of the dominant and alternative discourses of motherhood in neoliberal countries, and the global diversity of this …

  • The mommy wars: On the home front and waged abroad

    Linda Steiner, Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” published in 2012, generated huge response, well beyond what already has become typical in the intensifying mommy wars in the United States. It also drew considerable attention globally. Within one week of publication, Slaughter’s “lament” attracted a million readers. Slaughter’s explanation of why she quit her high powered job, and then Yahoo’s choice of the then-pregna…

  • Women in the Six Day War through the eyes of the media

    Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•The Journal of Israeli History•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    On the basis of a content analysis of 168 news items dealing with women in the two largest-circulation newspapers in Israel, this article investigates whether there was any change in the news media's representation of women during the Six Day War. The results indicate that while there was little change in women's representation in quantitative terms, that is, their visibility remained low, there were differences in qualitative terms. Whereas wome…

  • The gendered and sexualized relationship between Israeli women journalists and their male news sources

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Journalism•2005•Cited by: 19•References: 2

    This article studies the ways in which the interactions between female Israeli journalists and their male news sources are gendered and sexually structured. The article is grounded in feminist critiques of journalism as well as feminist organizational and work studies and it is based on examination of the narratives of individual experiences of 32 female Israeli journalists, working for 10 newspapers. I set forth the attitudes of the male sources…

  • A Beautiful Campaign: Analysis of public discourses in Israel surrounding the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty

    Einat Lachover, Sigal Barak-Brandes et al.•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2009•Cited by: 2•References: 2

    Dove's “real women” ads reached Israel in 2006. Part of a campaign with a social message, they aimed at changing society's stereotypical image of women, expanding the definition of beauty, empowering women, and generating public debate of these issues. This paper examines the discourse that emerged in Israel in two arenas: the Internet forum on the company's website and the media. It seeks to answer the questions: how successful was the campaign'…

  • Women in the Six Day War through the eyes of the media

    Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•The Journal of Israeli History•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    On the basis of a content analysis of 168 news items dealing with women in the two largest-circulation newspapers in Israel, this article investigates whether there was any change in the news media's representation of women during the Six Day War. The results indicate that while there was little change in women's representation in quantitative terms, that is, their visibility remained low, there were differences in qualitative terms. Whereas wome…

  • Just Being a Woman Isn't Enough Any More: Israeli television news of women in local politics

    Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2011•Cited by: 7•References: 7

    This study focuses on TV news coverage of women in the local elections held in Israel in 2008. The questions posed were: Did national TV news in Israel during the election campaign reflect the changes in the status of women in local politics that have occurred in the last two decades? How prominent was the representation of women politicians in national TV news coverage and what patterns did it display? The sample used in the study consisted of a…

  • Reframing the Past as a Cosmopolitan Memory: Obituaries in the Israeli Daily Haaretz

    Open Access•Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, Dalia Gavriely‐nuri et al.•ARTICLE•Communication Theory•2012•Cited by: 3•References: 23

    The global era presents a challenge for all memory agents for they are now faced with the task of constructing collective memories that maintain new contemporary values, most notably sensitivity to other nations' memories. This article deals with a major question flowing from the aforementioned task: Is it possible to reframe the past as a “cosmopolitan memory” for the purpose of promoting solidarity and peace? The article provides preliminary ev…

  • Israeli stamps 1948–2010: Between nationalism and cosmopolitanism

    Einat Lachover, Dalia Gavriely Nuri•ARTICLE•Israel Affairs•2013•Cited by: 5

    An examination of 1012 stamps issued by Israel from May 1948 to June 2010 reveals a degree of fluctuation between national and cosmopolitan themes, with a significant rise towards cosmopolitanism in the second decade and an increase in nationalism in the third. Cosmopolitan themes again showed modest growth in the fourth decade, and have been rising steadily, if moderately, since 1988. The findings suggest that Israeli stamp issues constitute an …

  • Jewish-Israeli Girls' Online Discourse about International Women's Day: Post-feminism or “feminist insensibility”

    Einat Lachover, Carmel L Vaisman•ARTICLE•Journal of Children and Media•2014

    This study analyzes the discourse of feminine and feminist identity among Jewish-Israeli girls as expressed over the Internet. The research questions are: What type of feminine identity is exhibited among Jewish-Israeli girls? What is the nature of their feminist identity? And what role does the Internet play in giving expression to these identities? The study focuses on discourse published on 44 blogs of girls on the occasion of International Wo…

  • Signs of change in media representation of women in Israeli politics: Leading and peripheral women contenders

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Journalism•2015•Cited by: 11•References: 5

    The study seeks to examine gender portrayal of Israeli women politicians, and specifically that of candidates for Israel’s parliament on televised news and in print in the elections of 2013. The study is based on an interpretive analysis of all news items wherein the women candidates are mentioned during the month preceding the elections. This study joins recent studies that point to a change in how women politicians are portrayed in the media. L…

  • The mommy wars: On the home front and waged abroad

    Linda Steiner, Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” published in 2012, generated huge response, well beyond what already has become typical in the intensifying mommy wars in the United States. It also drew considerable attention globally. Within one week of publication, Slaughter’s “lament” attracted a million readers. Slaughter’s explanation of why she quit her high powered job, and then Yahoo’s choice of the then-pregna…

  • Conservative and alternative motherhood in popular Israeli TV series

    Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    The present study analyzes the models of motherhood reflected and constructed in two popular Israeli television series that center around mothers. The analysis reveals the change in social norms and values regarding the institution of motherhood in Israel, while also shedding light on the construction, reproduction, and distribution of the dominant and alternative discourses of motherhood in neoliberal countries, and the global diversity of this …

  • Constructions of girls’ bodies in Israeli academic literature: A critical scoping review

    Einat Peled, Einat Lachover et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Gender Studies•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    This scoping review offers an opportunity to examine the spread and reclaiming of feminist theoretical tenets in a central domain of youth studies. We examined critically the development of the academic literature on Israeli girls and their bodies, based on a girlhood studies perspective. Data consisted of the 255 academic works (articles, book chapters and graduate theses) published on the topic since Israel’s inception. The analysed variables i…

  • Women in Israeli journalism: Forwards and Backwards

    Einat Lachover, Dafna Lemish•ARTICLE•Israel Affairs•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 6

    This article presents findings from investigations of acclaimed gender employment changes in Israeli journalism, focusing on two main questions: Is the feminisation process of Israeli journalism continuing? Is it improving women’s employment and occupational status? Data were gathered from two international surveys that included Israel. The study found that while women are integrated in a variety of news areas, such as news presentation, and play…

  • From research on girls to girlhood studies: Exploring Israeli girlhood studies from an international and historical perspective

    Open Access•Einat Lachover, Heidi Preis et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Women s Studies•2019

    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…

  • Multiplicity of feminisms: Discourse on women’s paid work in the popular Israeli women’s magazine La’isha during second-wave feminism

    Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2020•References: 10

    Study of the cultural discourse around women’s paid work in Israel is limited, and until now research has ignored its early periods and dynamics. This paper focuses on Israel’s third decade, 1967–1977, when women, including mothers, were for the first time encouraged to work outside the home. Using feminist critical discourse analysis, I examine La’isha (For the woman), Israel’s veteran commercial women’s magazine, which has self-declared its nat…

  • Gendered Memory and Miniaturization in Graphic Design: Representations of Women on Israeli Postage Stamps

    Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Design Issues•2021

    This research investigates postage stamps as a communication design medium that has a key role in the construction of national gendered commemoration. By examining the commemorative depiction of women on Israeli postage stamps, we analyze approaches to miniaturization and discuss graphic design's implications for the visual articulation of gender within national culture. We further discuss the impact of technological transformations and digitizat…

  • Successful” identity transformation: The representation of Israeli post-Soviet immigrant women in La’isha

    Yulia Shevchenko, Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 11

    This article draws on a special issue of La’isha, Israel’s most popular women’s magazine, to study media representations of post-Soviet women. The March 2020 issue, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel of the 1990s, focused on 1.5 generation post-Soviet women. Past studies suggest that first-generation post-Soviet women in Israel are represented as morally and socially fragmented. In …

  • Ethiopian-Israeli women working in mainstream journalism: Linking Ethiopian, black and Israeli identities through news-making

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Journalism•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 13

    Taking an intersectional approach, this study conceptualizes how the complex subjectivities of Ethiopian-Israeli women journalists – who contend with dual exclusion and discrimination (racial and gendered) – emerge in their everyday work experiences. Thematic analysis of narrative interviews with 12 Ethiopian-Israeli women journalists reveals a complicated picture of their professional experience derived from the intersection of their gender and …

  • The authentic conservative Wonder Woman: Israeli girls negotiating global and local meanings of femininity

    Einat Lachover, Shosh Davidson et al.•ARTICLE•Celebrity Studies•2021•References: 39

    Girls in Western societies are increasingly exposed to feminist ideas, often led by women celebrities. The current study explores how Israeli girls negotiate feminist concepts such as ‘girl power’ and ‘feminine success’ by examining their responses to Wonder Woman – a film that is part of this ‘feminist zeitgeist’ – and its Israeli actress, Gal Gadot. The paper documents the voices of hegemonic Israeli girls aged 13 to 15 in ten focus groups, and…

  • Gendered National Memory on Israeli Postage Stamps: From Gender Blindness to Feminist Commemoration

    Einat Lachover, Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler•ARTICLE•Israeli Studies Review•2022•References: 11

    In this article we focus on the gendered national construction on Israeli stamps commemorating renowned women over the course of Israel's history. We analyze gender construction on both the selection of the stamps and in their design. Based on analyses of the social role of women in Israeli historiography, archival documents, interviews with fourteen key figures involved in conceiving and designing the stamps, and the way stamp design constructs …

  • Visibility, Inclusion, and exclusion: Three generations of Russian-Israeli women journalists

    Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Journal of Gender Studies•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 22

    This study focuses on Russian-Israeli women journalists who resettled in Israel during the mass wave of immigrations from the Former Soviet Union in the 1990s. More specifically, it examines their experience of intersecting exclusion due to gender, ethnicity, and immigrant status. Based on narrative interviews with 18 Russian-Israeli women journalists, the study conceptualizes how their complex subjectivities emerge in their journalistic work. Th…

  • Online Interview Shocks: Reflecting on Power Relations in Online Qualitative Interviews

    Open Access•Ayelet Prior, Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 34

    The use of online camera-based interviews (OCBI) in qualitative studies is increasing. While recent studies have addressed the benefits and limitations of this method, scholarship still lacks an understanding of it beyond the technicalities. The present study explores how the online setting shapes power relations in qualitative OCBI. The data includes 52 OCBI that were conducted in two different qualitative studies. By applying the concept of int…

  • Women to grow up with: Transnational feminism in empowering biographies for girls

    Open Access•Einat Lachover, Shai Rudin•ARTICLE•Cogent Social Sciences•2024

    This article examines the case study of Real-Life Legends: 50 Women to Grow Up with in Israel, a local anthology published in 2019 as part of the global trend of women's biographical collections aimed at empowering girls.Investigating the dissemination of current feminist ideas in global popular culture within a specific cultural context, the study analyzes the selection of featured women, their biographical narratives, and the book's creation pr…

  • Negotiating between gender, national and professional identities: The work-experience of Israeli-Palestinian women journalists

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Ethnicities•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 27

    This paper analyzes the work experience of Israeli-Palestinian women journalists who reside and work in Israel for local news organizations or non-Israeli news agencies. It focuses on their experiences related to the intersected axes of their gender, ethnic, and national identities. Through thematic analysis of narrative interviews with 24 Palestinian women journalists, the study reveals that their work experiences vary between exclusion and incl…

  • Rebel History: The Feminist Illustrated Biographical Dictionary as a Genre

    Open Access•Shai Rudin, Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Children s Literature in Education•2025

  • From Lifestyle to War Stories: Navigating National Crisis in Women’s Magazines in Wartime

    Open Access•Einat Lachover•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2025•References: 7

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