Naomi Weiner‐levy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Weiner‐levy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiner‐levy |
| SIGNATURE | LEVY N W |
| AFFILIATIONS | David Yellin College of Education |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Prospective Arab teachers’ emotions as mirrors to their identities and culture
Returning to Ourselves
Studies of traditional healers in various cultures describe their initiation into the healing profession as a climax that constructs their professional and personal identity. Literature emphasizes the healers' intense association with the culture in which they work, as reflected in the initiation narratives that healers in various cultures recount. In this article we reveal unique initiation stories and identity formation from Palestinian nonconv…
Between Local and Foreign Structures
Stemming from the literature that examines the importance of structure as a means that produces agency, this article aims to analyze Palestinian women's agency in Israel as negotiation with particular conflicting structures. While Middle Eastern women‘s agency is structured within Arab religious and cultural resources, Palestinian women’s agency in Israel, We claim, is not only structured by Arab cultural and religious resources, but is also stru…
Traditional healing, higher education, autonomy and hardship
This article presents two coping paths available to Palestinian women in Israel today – turning to a traditional healer in the community, an act that represents turning ‘inwards’, and pursuing higher education, an act that represents turning ‘outwards’. These two paths enable coping – particularly in times of societal transition – and provide opportunities for the women who utilize them. On the other hand, each of these paths is laden with unique…
When Horizons Do Not Merge
Gadamer claims that the horizons of the listener and the narrator merge and create a new understanding of the narrative's meaning. This study examines encounters between researcher and informant in which these horizons do not merge, encounters-usually ignored in the literature-in which the researcher senses that the informant's statements raise questions, cause confusion, or are perceived as perhaps unacceptable. It analyzes these moments and the…
Patriarchs or Feminists? Relations Between Fathers and Trailblazing Daughters in Druze Society
Control, repression, demand for obedience, and maintenance of the inferior status of women are the prevailing characteristics noted in research literature describing men in patriarchal societies, whereas descriptors such as gentleness, dedication, support and encouragement of change in female gender roles are rarely applied. The most common findings largely reflect reality, but there is also another side to the story, as presented in this study. …
Olive Oil, Chocolates and a Bright Blue Sweater
When the Hegemony Studies the Minority-An Israeli Jewish Researcher Studies Druze Women
This study describes the positionality and power relations revealed during research on women in Israel's Druze minority, conducted by a Jewish woman in the country's hegemonic society. Although the researcher's position and power appear obvious, changes took place constantly, reflecting her unstable position as a stranger, "outsider" or "insider," as well as shifts in power relations. The researcher's positionality is believed to be affected prim…
On cross‐cultural bridges and gaps
The emotional conflicts and evolving Identity of the first Druze women who turned to study in Israeli universities is explored in this paper. While the benefits of higher education are widely discussed, this article wishes to focus on the different, more complex effects of education on the lives and identities of women. The study examines the complex identity patterns of these pioneering women after returning to their villages on completing their…
Identity and gender in cultural transitions
This paper examines the phenomenon of the return of Bedouin and Druze women from studies in Israeli universities to their homes and culture, focusing on the perspective of the psychological changes they experienced in their identity. Entering the university, located in the Jewish-Israeli space (in central cities in Israel), constitutes entry into a new and different cultural world that exposes these women to values and norms different from those …
The Flagbearers
This ethnographic study expands educational anthropologists' knowledge of the relationship between higher education and personal and social change in so-called traditional societies. It describes transitions in the status of Druze women in Israel brought about by the first women from the community to obtain higher education, granting new insights into women's struggles for change. The study, conducted between 1998 and 2002, explores unique proces…
Between Local and Foreign Structures
Stemming from the literature that examines the importance of structure as a means that produces agency, this article aims to analyze Palestinian women's agency in Israel as negotiation with particular conflicting structures. While Middle Eastern women‘s agency is structured within Arab religious and cultural resources, Palestinian women’s agency in Israel, We claim, is not only structured by Arab cultural and religious resources, but is also stru…
When the Hegemony Studies the Minority-An Israeli Jewish Researcher Studies Druze Women
This study describes the positionality and power relations revealed during research on women in Israel's Druze minority, conducted by a Jewish woman in the country's hegemonic society. Although the researcher's position and power appear obvious, changes took place constantly, reflecting her unstable position as a stranger, "outsider" or "insider," as well as shifts in power relations. The researcher's positionality is believed to be affected prim…
Identity and gender in cultural transitions
This paper examines the phenomenon of the return of Bedouin and Druze women from studies in Israeli universities to their homes and culture, focusing on the perspective of the psychological changes they experienced in their identity. Entering the university, located in the Jewish-Israeli space (in central cities in Israel), constitutes entry into a new and different cultural world that exposes these women to values and norms different from those …
The Flagbearers
This ethnographic study expands educational anthropologists' knowledge of the relationship between higher education and personal and social change in so-called traditional societies. It describes transitions in the status of Druze women in Israel brought about by the first women from the community to obtain higher education, granting new insights into women's struggles for change. The study, conducted between 1998 and 2002, explores unique proces…
On cross‐cultural bridges and gaps
The emotional conflicts and evolving Identity of the first Druze women who turned to study in Israeli universities is explored in this paper. While the benefits of higher education are widely discussed, this article wishes to focus on the different, more complex effects of education on the lives and identities of women. The study examines the complex identity patterns of these pioneering women after returning to their villages on completing their…
Patriarchs or Feminists? Relations Between Fathers and Trailblazing Daughters in Druze Society
Control, repression, demand for obedience, and maintenance of the inferior status of women are the prevailing characteristics noted in research literature describing men in patriarchal societies, whereas descriptors such as gentleness, dedication, support and encouragement of change in female gender roles are rarely applied. The most common findings largely reflect reality, but there is also another side to the story, as presented in this study. …
Prospective Arab teachers’ emotions as mirrors to their identities and culture
Traditional healing, higher education, autonomy and hardship
This article presents two coping paths available to Palestinian women in Israel today – turning to a traditional healer in the community, an act that represents turning ‘inwards’, and pursuing higher education, an act that represents turning ‘outwards’. These two paths enable coping – particularly in times of societal transition – and provide opportunities for the women who utilize them. On the other hand, each of these paths is laden with unique…
Olive Oil, Chocolates and a Bright Blue Sweater
Returning to Ourselves
Studies of traditional healers in various cultures describe their initiation into the healing profession as a climax that constructs their professional and personal identity. Literature emphasizes the healers' intense association with the culture in which they work, as reflected in the initiation narratives that healers in various cultures recount. In this article we reveal unique initiation stories and identity formation from Palestinian nonconv…
When Horizons Do Not Merge
Gadamer claims that the horizons of the listener and the narrator merge and create a new understanding of the narrative's meaning. This study examines encounters between researcher and informant in which these horizons do not merge, encounters-usually ignored in the literature-in which the researcher senses that the informant's statements raise questions, cause confusion, or are perceived as perhaps unacceptable. It analyzes these moments and the…
The Flagbearers
This ethnographic study expands educational anthropologists' knowledge of the relationship between higher education and personal and social change in so-called traditional societies. It describes transitions in the status of Druze women in Israel brought about by the first women from the community to obtain higher education, granting new insights into women's struggles for change. The study, conducted between 1998 and 2002, explores unique proces…
On cross‐cultural bridges and gaps
The emotional conflicts and evolving Identity of the first Druze women who turned to study in Israeli universities is explored in this paper. While the benefits of higher education are widely discussed, this article wishes to focus on the different, more complex effects of education on the lives and identities of women. The study examines the complex identity patterns of these pioneering women after returning to their villages on completing their…
Identity and gender in cultural transitions
This paper examines the phenomenon of the return of Bedouin and Druze women from studies in Israeli universities to their homes and culture, focusing on the perspective of the psychological changes they experienced in their identity. Entering the university, located in the Jewish-Israeli space (in central cities in Israel), constitutes entry into a new and different cultural world that exposes these women to values and norms different from those …
When the Hegemony Studies the Minority-An Israeli Jewish Researcher Studies Druze Women
This study describes the positionality and power relations revealed during research on women in Israel's Druze minority, conducted by a Jewish woman in the country's hegemonic society. Although the researcher's position and power appear obvious, changes took place constantly, reflecting her unstable position as a stranger, "outsider" or "insider," as well as shifts in power relations. The researcher's positionality is believed to be affected prim…
Olive Oil, Chocolates and a Bright Blue Sweater
Patriarchs or Feminists? Relations Between Fathers and Trailblazing Daughters in Druze Society
Control, repression, demand for obedience, and maintenance of the inferior status of women are the prevailing characteristics noted in research literature describing men in patriarchal societies, whereas descriptors such as gentleness, dedication, support and encouragement of change in female gender roles are rarely applied. The most common findings largely reflect reality, but there is also another side to the story, as presented in this study. …
Traditional healing, higher education, autonomy and hardship
This article presents two coping paths available to Palestinian women in Israel today – turning to a traditional healer in the community, an act that represents turning ‘inwards’, and pursuing higher education, an act that represents turning ‘outwards’. These two paths enable coping – particularly in times of societal transition – and provide opportunities for the women who utilize them. On the other hand, each of these paths is laden with unique…
When Horizons Do Not Merge
Gadamer claims that the horizons of the listener and the narrator merge and create a new understanding of the narrative's meaning. This study examines encounters between researcher and informant in which these horizons do not merge, encounters-usually ignored in the literature-in which the researcher senses that the informant's statements raise questions, cause confusion, or are perceived as perhaps unacceptable. It analyzes these moments and the…
Between Local and Foreign Structures
Stemming from the literature that examines the importance of structure as a means that produces agency, this article aims to analyze Palestinian women's agency in Israel as negotiation with particular conflicting structures. While Middle Eastern women‘s agency is structured within Arab religious and cultural resources, Palestinian women’s agency in Israel, We claim, is not only structured by Arab cultural and religious resources, but is also stru…
Returning to Ourselves
Studies of traditional healers in various cultures describe their initiation into the healing profession as a climax that constructs their professional and personal identity. Literature emphasizes the healers' intense association with the culture in which they work, as reflected in the initiation narratives that healers in various cultures recount. In this article we reveal unique initiation stories and identity formation from Palestinian nonconv…
Prospective Arab teachers’ emotions as mirrors to their identities and culture
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)