Neither Seeing Nor Seen

Krumer-Nevo, Michal; Elfassi, Yamit; Sagy, Shifra; Lavie-Ajayi, Maya

doi:10.1177/1103308815613683

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“…However, this is a mixed blessing. Consistent with previous research on Bedouin women in the interface with perinatal health [ 63 , 64 ], increasing compliance with recommendations of the health institutions during and after pregnancy may also restrict the autonomy over the pregnant feminine body, this time via medicalization. The mediators witness and share in drawing near to modernity and creating an autonomic feminine prenatal space that leads to increased medical control over the pregnant women’s body.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 74%

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Between a woman and her fetus: Bedouin women mediators advance the health of pregnant women and babies in their society

Sharaby

Peres

2021

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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Introduction Bedouin women in Israel confront a challenging circumstance between their traditional patriarchal society and transition to modernity. In terms of reproductive health, they face grave disparities as women, pregnant women and mothers. In this article we aim to understand the challenges of Bedouin women who work as mediators in the promotion of Bedouin women’s perinatal health. We explore their challenges with the dual and often conflictual role as health peer-instructors-mediators in mother-and-child clinics, and also as members of a Bedouin community, embodying a status as women, mothers, and family caretakers. Drawn upon a feminist interpretative framework, the article describes their challenges in matters of perinatal health. Our research question is: how do women who traditionally suffer from blatant gender inequality utilize health-promotion work to navigate and empower themselves and other Bedouin women. Methods Based on an interpretive feminist framework, we performed narrative analysis on eleven in-depth interviews with health mediators who worked in a project in the Negev area of Israel. The article qualitatively analyses the ways in which Bedouin women mediators narrate their challenging situations. Results This article shows how difficult health mediators’ task may be for women with restricted education who struggle for autonomy and better social and maternal status. Through their praxis, women mediators develop a critical perspective without risking their commitments as women who are committed to their work as well as their society, communities, and families. These health mediators navigate their ways between the demands of their employer (the Israeli national mother and child health services) and their patriarchal Bedouin society. While avoiding open conflictual confrontations with both hegemonic powers, they also develop self-confidence and a critical and active approach. Conclusions The article shows the ways by which the mediator’s activity involved in perinatal health-promotion may utilize modern perinatal medical knowledge to increase women’s awareness and autonomy over their pregnant bodies and their role as caregivers. We hope our results will be applicable for other women as well, especially for women who belong to other traditional and patriarchal societies.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 74%

“…education and learning, as generating change [ 58 ]. Our attention was drawn to the creation of a new epistemological agenda, in which researchers pointed to the way science reflects only men’s fields of interest and excludes their experiences as women who hold their own topics of interest and perspectives [ 56 , 63 ].…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Between a woman and her fetus: Bedouin women mediators advance the health of pregnant women and babies in their society

Sharaby

Peres

2021

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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“…This article explores the experiences of women who work as social workers in social care NPOs. For this purpose, the qualitative approach was employed (Chamberlian et al, 1997), designed to focus on, unfold and uncover the interviewees' work experiences (Krumer-Nevo et al, 2014). The methodological starting point was feminism.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For this purpose, the qualitative approach was employed (Chamberlian et al. , 1997), designed to focus on, unfold and uncover the interviewees’ work experiences (Krumer-Nevo et al. , 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Gender employment contradictions in Israeli nonprofit organizations providing social care

Livnat,

Almog-Bar

2024

IJSSP

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PurposeThis article asks how gender, ethnicity and other identities intersect and shape the employment experiences of social workers. During recent decades, governments have contracted social care to for-profit and nonprofit organizations (NPOs) globally as a part of the adaption of the neoliberal approach. Most employees in these organizations are women. However, there is a lack of knowledge about women working in social service NPOs and their unique working environments.Design/methodology/approachThis article explores the experiences of women employed as social workers in social care NPOs in Israel regarding intersectionality. 27 in-depth interviews were conducted with women social workers working in social service NPOs. Participants reflected diversity in ethnicity, religion and full-time and part-time jobs. Thematic analysis was used.FindingsThe findings shed light on: (1) the contradiction social workers experienced between the stated values of the social care NPO and those values’ conduct, (2) intersectional discrimination among social workers from vulnerable populations and (3) the lack of gender-aware policies.Social implicationsThe need to raise awareness of the social care sector and governments to those contradictions and to promote diversity through gender-aware policies and practices.Originality/valueThe article suggests a conceptualization describing gender employment contradictions in social care NPOs, discusses how the angle of intersectionality expands the understanding of the complexities and pressures exerted on social workers from minority groups and emphasizes the need for social care NPOs to acknowledge and deal with these contradictions.

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“…A qualitative approach was used to explore women's work experiences and perceptions as professional-level employees in NPOs, concerning community and community resilience. We chose this approach because it can encompass the interviewees' subjective perceptions and personal experiences [65,66].…”

Section: Logic Of Inquirymentioning

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Who Provides Resilience to the Community Resilience Providers?

Livnat

Almog‐Bar

2023

Societies

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The article focuses on employees of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) as an essential component of community resilience. Forty women, professionals in the helping professions, were interviewed about their work experiences as employees in social service NPOs. The interviews were conducted from 2019 to 2020, mostly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to understand those employees’ perceptions of work conditions, contracting-out of social services, professional community and relationships with co-workers, work–life balance, job satisfaction, and their future plans. The findings present loneliness at work and lacking of a sense of community and a strong sense of mission while facing a challenging environment and work conditions in NPOs. In the discussion, we offer a complementary understanding of solidarity and resilience in NPOs—and we elaborate on the lack of professional “communitiness” and its possible harmful effect on the resilience of wider communities in times of crisis—when resilience is mostly needed. The paper presents NPOs employees as critical actors in producing resilience, hence there exists a need to examine their work environment, job perceptions, and the latter’s contribution to their own resilience.

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Neither Seeing Nor Seen

Cited by 4 publications

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Between a woman and her fetus: Bedouin women mediators advance the health of pregnant women and babies in their society

Between a woman and her fetus: Bedouin women mediators advance the health of pregnant women and babies in their society

Gender employment contradictions in Israeli nonprofit organizations providing social care

Who Provides Resilience to the Community Resilience Providers?

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