Developing cutting-edge research

Gender, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

Senior Faculty

Prof. Einat Peled

Research Topic:

Sex work and transactional sex, motherhood, fatherhood, and adolescent girls at risk.

Dr. Ido Katri

Research Topic:

Trans theory, queer theory, trans rights, gender-affirming healthcare, sex assignment at birth, and LGBTQ parenting.

Prof. Guy Shilo

Research Topic:

Sexual orientation development processes, mental and physical health of LGBTQ individuals, non-heterosexual families, and people engaged in sex work and ways to support them.

Dr. Hagit Sinai Glazer

Research Topic:

Motherhood and well-being

Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Orna Donath

Dr. Daniela Shebar-Shapira

Dr. Nurit Glaser Chodick

MSW Sarit Shay

Dr. Michal Komem

PhD students and postdoctoral fellows

Roi Levi

Research Topic:
Loss, grief, and post-traumatic growth among LGBTQ individuals and their parents.

Maddie Apple

Research Topic:
The construction of dual minority identity – identity formation and coming-out processes among LGBTQ individuals with autism.

Ayelet Prior

Research Topic:
Identity construction among men who pay women for sex.

Dania Koren-Shimshoni

Research Topic:
Maternal identity of mothers to young women who experienced childhood sexual abuse.

Racheli Tal-Hadar

Research Topic:
The construction of sexual subjectivity as a political act among women engaged in sex work:
A poststructuralist feminist study.

Recent Publications

Katri, Ido. "Transgender Intrasectionality: Rethinking Anti-Discrimination Law and Litigation." University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change Change 51 (2017).

Katri, Ido. "Trans-Arab-Jew: A Look beyond the Boundaries of In-Between Identities." Transgender Studies Quarterly 6 (2019).

Katri, Ido. "Scamming Reforms - Sex Reclassification for Trans and Gender-Nonconforming People: From the Medicalized Body to the Privatized Self." Oxford Encyclopedia of LGBT Politics and Policy (Don Merkel Ed.) (Oxford Press, 2019).

Katri, Ido, Yonaת Lihi. "The Limits of Transgender Incarceration Reform." Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 31 (2020).

Shilo, Guy, Antebi-Gruzka, Nadav, & Mor, Zohar. "Mental Distress, Well-Being, and Stress-Related Growth following an Anti-LGBQ Hate Crime among LGBQ Young Adults in Israel: The Effect of Familiarity with the Victims and the Mediating Role of Emotional Support." Journal of Homosexuality 67 (2020).

Shilo, Guy, Peled, Einat, & Preis, Heidi. "Health Behavior Change among Commercially Sexually Exploited Israeli Youth and Young Adults in a Multi-Module Program." Health & Social Care in the Community 28 (2020).

Peled, Einat, Shilo, Guy, Eick, Uri, & Marton-Marom, Yonatan. "The Attitudes Toward Men Who Pay for Sex Scale: Development and Preliminary Validation." Archives of sexual behavior 49 (2020).

Shilo, Guy, Peled, Einat, & Gewirtz-Meidan, Ateret. "Men Who Pay for Sex Once, More than Once, or Not at All: A New Typology of Behavior and Attitudes." The Journal of Sex Research 58 (2021).

Lahav-Raz, Yeela, Prior, Ayelet., Shilo, Guy, & Peled, Einat. "Helping Individuals in the Sex Trade During COVID-19: The Perspectives of Israeli Aid Organizations." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (2021).

Prior, Ayelet, & Peled, Einat. "Identity Construction of Men Who Pay Women for Sex: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis." Journal of Sex Research 58 (2021).

Prior, Ayelet, & Peled, Einat. "Gendered Power Relations in Women-to-Men Interviews on Controversial Sexual Behavior." International Journal of Social Research Methodology (2021).

Birger, Lior, & Peled, Einat. "Between Crisis and Opportunity: Eritrean Refugee Men in Israel Negotiating Masculinity." Men and Masculinities (2021).

Kahalon, Rotem, Preis, Heidi, Shilo, Guy, & Benyamini, Yael. "Maternal expectations among pregnant women from single, lesbian, and heterosexual parented families." Journal of Family Issues 42 (2021).

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