Maya Maor
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 347574 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Maya Maor |
| PRENOMES | Maya |
| SOBRENOME | Maor |
| ASSINATURA | MAOR M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6215-1320 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Keeping their powder dry
This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership, and more specifically why these women are so invested in concealing their personal handguns despite the …
Lived hybridity and armed citizenship
This article develops the concept of lived hybridity to theorize civilian gun culture in Israel as a form of agency enacted within contradictory structures of power, legality, and identity. Based on three and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork and 36 interviews, we show how Israeli gun owners navigate the conflicting logics of state-conferred privilege and liberal individual right. Rather than reflecting pure state militarism, civilian gun ow…
Locked, loaded, and online”
This article examines how armed Israeli women use social media to engage with male-dominated securitization practices in Israel. With a systematic discursive analysis of over 1,000 posts on a closed WhatsApp group for armed Israeli women, we demonstrate, how these women are able to critique the traditionally masculine framing of Israeli security culture and reimagine their roles as protectors in both family and public spheres. Theoretically we ar…
You Can't Always Run Away
This article explores the interplay between the nation-state, gender, and security by exploring embodied experiences of Israeli women gun owners. Growing skepticism toward Israel's historically state-centric security model has driven a significant increase in women's personal handgun ownership, disrupting and reconfiguring traditional gender identities. As the state's monopoly on public security erodes, armed women increasingly take on the role o…
Women Who Perform Social Egg Freezing as Moral Pioneers
Social egg freezing (SEF) is a new reproductive technology that is increasingly used within ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, stirring tensions between tradition and modernity. Based on in-depth semi-structured interviews, this study examined how ultra-Orthodox singles who employ SEF engage in social negotiations over gender- and body-related norms. Findings show that participants successfully assimilated SEF by establishing facts on the ground …
From the body as an object to embodied subjectivity
I Had to Rediscover Our Healthy Food”
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is disproportionally prevalent among the Bedouin minority in Israel, with especially poor treatment outcomes compared to other indigenous groups. This study uses the perspective of the Bedouins themselves to explore the distinct challenges they face, as well as their coping strategies. The study is based on an interpretive interactionist analysis of 49 semi-structured interviews with Bedouin men and women. The find…
Fighting Gender Stereotypes
In the past, some scholars have assumed that women’s empowerment through participation in sports, particularly male-identified sports, would result in a decrease in gender differences and performances of femininity. Recently, however, scholars have suggested that performances of femininity are not necessarily detrimental to gender empowerment, and furthermore that strategic use of them may be subversive. On the basis of my auto-ethnography and in…
Masculinities in the Middle
The present study explores recent changes in performances of masculinity in the West, through an exploration of the status of adolescent boys participating in mostly adult martial arts groups. Drawing on a qualitative methodology of ethnographic participation and in-depth interviews, I argue that adolescent boys simultaneously occupy positions of centrality and marginality. Hierarchies of age and seniority place the boys as inferior, to both men …
Mothers’ strategies to strengthen their daughters’ body image
Existing studies of the mother–daughter relationship have focused mainly on the transfer of negative body image messages or on risk of eating disorders, and have paid little attention to how this relationship might serve as a resource for building body-acceptance or resilience to disordered eating. On the basis of a secondary analysis of four qualitative samples, we examined how mothers and their now-adult daughters reflect on the ways in which t…
Fat by Deborah Lupton
Deborah Lupton’s Fat is an excellent, comprehensive introductory text about the social meanings attached to fat and fatness in contemporary Western societies. While most of the examples discussed i
Stories that matter
Contemporary scholarship does not pay enough attention to stigma in relation to its temporal status; i.e. whether the stigma is temporary and changeable, or is it permanent? The present article links the study of sociology of time, of de-stigmatization strategies and of narrative resistance, through a case study of individuals who are stigmatized on the basis of an attribute perceived as temporary and changeable – fatness. Conducting a comparativ…
Do I Still Belong Here?’ The Body's Boundary Work in the Israeli Fat Acceptance Movement
Boundary work is important in all social movements, but the instability of bodily-based categories makes boundary work particularly complicated in movements where bodily attributes are key to identity formation. Many Anglo-American fat acceptance groups have attempted to draw boundaries on the basis of two ‘ideal fat subjects’: one with a stable, unitary ‘resisting’ consciousness and/or one based on excluding those who are not ‘really’ fat or fat…
The Body that Does Not Diminish Itself
This article follows Charlotte Cooper's call to widen fat studies scholarship to contexts outside the United States, and Adrianne Hill's call to locate historically specific connections between lesbian communities and promotion of fat acceptance. Three in-depth interviews were conducted with Jewish-Israeli fat women. Through the development of their ability to appreciate their fat body and the fat bodies of other women, participants employed a mi…
Fat women
Fat women
Do I Still Belong Here?’ The Body's Boundary Work in the Israeli Fat Acceptance Movement
Boundary work is important in all social movements, but the instability of bodily-based categories makes boundary work particularly complicated in movements where bodily attributes are key to identity formation. Many Anglo-American fat acceptance groups have attempted to draw boundaries on the basis of two ‘ideal fat subjects’: one with a stable, unitary ‘resisting’ consciousness and/or one based on excluding those who are not ‘really’ fat or fat…
The Body that Does Not Diminish Itself
This article follows Charlotte Cooper's call to widen fat studies scholarship to contexts outside the United States, and Adrianne Hill's call to locate historically specific connections between lesbian communities and promotion of fat acceptance. Three in-depth interviews were conducted with Jewish-Israeli fat women. Through the development of their ability to appreciate their fat body and the fat bodies of other women, participants employed a mi…
Stories that matter
Contemporary scholarship does not pay enough attention to stigma in relation to its temporal status; i.e. whether the stigma is temporary and changeable, or is it permanent? The present article links the study of sociology of time, of de-stigmatization strategies and of narrative resistance, through a case study of individuals who are stigmatized on the basis of an attribute perceived as temporary and changeable – fatness. Conducting a comparativ…
Fighting Gender Stereotypes
In the past, some scholars have assumed that women’s empowerment through participation in sports, particularly male-identified sports, would result in a decrease in gender differences and performances of femininity. Recently, however, scholars have suggested that performances of femininity are not necessarily detrimental to gender empowerment, and furthermore that strategic use of them may be subversive. On the basis of my auto-ethnography and in…
Masculinities in the Middle
The present study explores recent changes in performances of masculinity in the West, through an exploration of the status of adolescent boys participating in mostly adult martial arts groups. Drawing on a qualitative methodology of ethnographic participation and in-depth interviews, I argue that adolescent boys simultaneously occupy positions of centrality and marginality. Hierarchies of age and seniority place the boys as inferior, to both men …
Mothers’ strategies to strengthen their daughters’ body image
Existing studies of the mother–daughter relationship have focused mainly on the transfer of negative body image messages or on risk of eating disorders, and have paid little attention to how this relationship might serve as a resource for building body-acceptance or resilience to disordered eating. On the basis of a secondary analysis of four qualitative samples, we examined how mothers and their now-adult daughters reflect on the ways in which t…
The Body that Does Not Diminish Itself
This article follows Charlotte Cooper's call to widen fat studies scholarship to contexts outside the United States, and Adrianne Hill's call to locate historically specific connections between lesbian communities and promotion of fat acceptance. Three in-depth interviews were conducted with Jewish-Israeli fat women. Through the development of their ability to appreciate their fat body and the fat bodies of other women, participants employed a mi…
Fat women
Stories that matter
Contemporary scholarship does not pay enough attention to stigma in relation to its temporal status; i.e. whether the stigma is temporary and changeable, or is it permanent? The present article links the study of sociology of time, of de-stigmatization strategies and of narrative resistance, through a case study of individuals who are stigmatized on the basis of an attribute perceived as temporary and changeable – fatness. Conducting a comparativ…
Do I Still Belong Here?’ The Body's Boundary Work in the Israeli Fat Acceptance Movement
Boundary work is important in all social movements, but the instability of bodily-based categories makes boundary work particularly complicated in movements where bodily attributes are key to identity formation. Many Anglo-American fat acceptance groups have attempted to draw boundaries on the basis of two ‘ideal fat subjects’: one with a stable, unitary ‘resisting’ consciousness and/or one based on excluding those who are not ‘really’ fat or fat…
Fat by Deborah Lupton
Deborah Lupton’s Fat is an excellent, comprehensive introductory text about the social meanings attached to fat and fatness in contemporary Western societies. While most of the examples discussed i
Mothers’ strategies to strengthen their daughters’ body image
Existing studies of the mother–daughter relationship have focused mainly on the transfer of negative body image messages or on risk of eating disorders, and have paid little attention to how this relationship might serve as a resource for building body-acceptance or resilience to disordered eating. On the basis of a secondary analysis of four qualitative samples, we examined how mothers and their now-adult daughters reflect on the ways in which t…
Masculinities in the Middle
The present study explores recent changes in performances of masculinity in the West, through an exploration of the status of adolescent boys participating in mostly adult martial arts groups. Drawing on a qualitative methodology of ethnographic participation and in-depth interviews, I argue that adolescent boys simultaneously occupy positions of centrality and marginality. Hierarchies of age and seniority place the boys as inferior, to both men …
Fighting Gender Stereotypes
In the past, some scholars have assumed that women’s empowerment through participation in sports, particularly male-identified sports, would result in a decrease in gender differences and performances of femininity. Recently, however, scholars have suggested that performances of femininity are not necessarily detrimental to gender empowerment, and furthermore that strategic use of them may be subversive. On the basis of my auto-ethnography and in…
I Had to Rediscover Our Healthy Food”
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is disproportionally prevalent among the Bedouin minority in Israel, with especially poor treatment outcomes compared to other indigenous groups. This study uses the perspective of the Bedouins themselves to explore the distinct challenges they face, as well as their coping strategies. The study is based on an interpretive interactionist analysis of 49 semi-structured interviews with Bedouin men and women. The find…
Women Who Perform Social Egg Freezing as Moral Pioneers
Social egg freezing (SEF) is a new reproductive technology that is increasingly used within ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, stirring tensions between tradition and modernity. Based on in-depth semi-structured interviews, this study examined how ultra-Orthodox singles who employ SEF engage in social negotiations over gender- and body-related norms. Findings show that participants successfully assimilated SEF by establishing facts on the ground …
From the body as an object to embodied subjectivity
Locked, loaded, and online”
This article examines how armed Israeli women use social media to engage with male-dominated securitization practices in Israel. With a systematic discursive analysis of over 1,000 posts on a closed WhatsApp group for armed Israeli women, we demonstrate, how these women are able to critique the traditionally masculine framing of Israeli security culture and reimagine their roles as protectors in both family and public spheres. Theoretically we ar…
You Can't Always Run Away
This article explores the interplay between the nation-state, gender, and security by exploring embodied experiences of Israeli women gun owners. Growing skepticism toward Israel's historically state-centric security model has driven a significant increase in women's personal handgun ownership, disrupting and reconfiguring traditional gender identities. As the state's monopoly on public security erodes, armed women increasingly take on the role o…
Keeping their powder dry
This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership, and more specifically why these women are so invested in concealing their personal handguns despite the …
Lived hybridity and armed citizenship
This article develops the concept of lived hybridity to theorize civilian gun culture in Israel as a form of agency enacted within contradictory structures of power, legality, and identity. Based on three and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork and 36 interviews, we show how Israeli gun owners navigate the conflicting logics of state-conferred privilege and liberal individual right. Rather than reflecting pure state militarism, civilian gun ow…
Sociology (11 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Obesity and Health Practices (7 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (5 obras) · Law (4 obras)