Lecturers Page Prof. Einat Lachover

Prof. Einat Lachover

Einat Lachover (Ph.D. Tel-Aviv University, 2003) is an associate professor at Sapir Academic College. Her work is dedicated to critical analysis of the encounters between gender and a broad range of media forms and contexts, such as: gender construction of news production; gendered discourse in news media; gender ideologies in popular media; and girlhood and media. She also researches questions related to cultural discourse, memory, and national identity. I am the co-founder of the Feminist Forum of Sapir College in 2009. The forum promotes academic and social activism in the south of Israel.

 

 

Areas of interest and Teaching

Areas of interest

  • Gender construction of news production
  • Gendered discourse in news media
  • Gender ideologies in popular media
  • Girlhood and media

Teaching

Hebrew lective year: תשפה

Research

I am a Communications scholar dedicated primarily to critical analysis of the encounters between gender and a broad range of media forms, contents, and contexts. My major research interests concern media production, texts, and their interpretation, and relate to a variety of media products, including news, popular media, and online platforms. I examine both current and historical perspectives, employ various qualitative research methods, and focus on four prominent themes: gender construction of news production; gendered discourse in news media; gender ideologies in popular media; and girlhood and media. 

Awards

Publications

A.            Edited Books and Special Journal Issues – Published (Refereed)

 

1. HAGAR - Studies in culture, polity and identities. 11 (2), 2014. Special issue: Women and work from feminist perspectives (176 pages). Co-Guest Editor: S. Nagar-Ron & E. Lachover.

2. Lachover, E., Peled, E., & Komem, M. (2017). Girlhood bodies: Absent, hidden, present (292 pages). Magnes Publishing House. The Hebrew University Press. Hebrew

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Lachover, E. (2000). Women journalists in the print media. Kesher, 28, 63-74. [Hebrew]

ISSN: 0792-0113

 

2.

Lachover, E. (2005). The gendered and sexualized relationship between Israeli women journalists and their male news sources, Journalism, 6 (3), 265-290. https://bit.ly/35nyMcf

 

3.

Lachover, E. (2009). The first lady of Hebrew journalism: Hannah Semer (1924-2003). Medien and Zeit, 24 (2), 40-54.  

ISSN: 0259-7446 https://bit.ly/2Hk6nfd

 

4.

Lachover, E., and Barak-Brandes, S. (2009). A beautiful campaign? Analysis of the public discourse in Israel surrounding the Dove campaign for real beauty. Feminist Media Studies, 9 (3), 301-316. https://bit.ly/2Fh1bq1

 

5.

Lachover, E. (2009). Women in the Six Day War through the eye of the media. The Journal of Israeli History 28 (2), 117-135.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13531040903169685

 

5a.

Lachover, E. (2008). Women in the Six-Day War (1967): The media narrative, Israel. Studies in Zionism and the State of Israel History, Society, Culture, 13, 29-58. [Hebrew] https://bit.ly/2IuDD46

 

6.

Lachover, E. (2011). Models of femininity in Israeli women's magazines during the Six-Day War. Iyunim Bitkumat Israel. Gender in Israel. New Studies on Gender in the Yishuv and State 2, 545-579. [Hebrew]  https://bit.ly/2jPWI2w

 

7.

Lachover, E., & Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2011). Requiem to the nationalism? Shaping a collective Israeli identity through obituaries, Global Media Journal: Mediterranean Edition, 6 (1), 24-39.

ISSN= 1450-4154 https://bit.ly/2qt7pez

 

8.

Lachover, E. (2012). Just being a woman isn't enough anymore: Israeli television news of Israeli women in local elections, Feminist Media Studies, 12 (3), 442-458. https://bit.ly/2QrUzvn

 

8a

Lachover, E. (2015). It's not enough just to be a woman: Israeli television news of Israeli women in local elections, DARUNA. Scientific, Educational & Literary Journal, 43, 153-176. [Hebrew]

ISSN 2312-6051

 

9.

Lachover, E. (2012). The discourse of the social protest in summer 2011 in Israeli women’s magazines. Misgarot Media. Israeli Journal of Communication, 9, 1-27. [Hebrew]

ISSN 2617-5290 https://bit.ly/2FhZ0lW

 

10.

Gavriely-Nuri, D., & Lachover, E. (2012). Reframing the past as cosmopolitan memory: Obituaries in the Israeli daily Haaretz, Communication Theory, 22 (1), 6-65.  https://bit.ly/2FmyNTc

 

11.

Lachover, E. (2013). Professionalism, femininity and feminism in the Life of Hannah Semer (1924-2003): First lady of Israeli journalism, NASHIM, 24, 120-138.  DOI: 10.2979/nashim.24.120

 

11a.

Lachover, E. (2016). Professionalism, femininity and feminism in the Life of Hannah Semer (1924- 2003), Kesher, 48, 65-71. [Hebrew] https://bit.ly/2qpuL4w

 

12.

Lachover, E., & Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2013). Israeli stamps 1948-2010: Between nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Israel Affairs, 19 (2), 321-337.

DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2013.778086

 

13.

Lachover, E. (2013). Influential women: Feminist discourse in women’s magazines – the case of Israel. Communication, Culture and Critique, 6 (1), 121-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/cccr.12005

 

14.

Lachover, E., & Vaisman, C. (2014). Jewish-Israeli girls online discourse about international women's day: Post-Feminism or “feminist insensibility”? Journal of Children and Media, 8 (2), 110-126. DOI:10.1080/17482798.2013.795907

 

15.

Lachover, E. (2014). "Why women still can't have it all”: Israeli media discourse on motherhood vs. career. HAGAR - Studies in culture, polity and identities. Special issue: Women and work from feminist perspectives, 11 (2), 105-126. https://bit.ly/2qkkw1k

 

16.

Barak-Brandes, S., & Lachover, E. (2016). Branding relations: Mother-daughter discourse on beauty and body in Dove Israeli campaign. Communication Culture and Critique, 9 (3), 379-394.  DOI:10.1111/cccr.12111

 

17.

Steiner, L., & Lachover, E. (2016). The mommy wars: On the home front and waged abroad, Feminist Media Studies, 16(5), 869-885. DOI:10.1080/14680777.2015.1137337

 

18.

Lachover, E. (2017). Signs of change in women's representation in Israeli politics and media: Prominent and less-prominent politicians, Journalism, 18(4), 446-463. DOI:10.1177/1464884915610991

 

19.

Lachover, E. (2019). Conservative and alternative motherhood in popular Israeli series. Feminist Media Studies, 19(2), 195-209. https://bit.ly/2sDb0Mj

 

20.

Lachover, E. (2018). Mother's Day: Motherhood models in popular Israeli television series. Social Security. Israel Journal of Social Policy, 103, 285-302. [Hebrew] https://bit.ly/2ICu931

 

21.

Lachover, E., & Lemish D. (2018). Women in Israeli journalism: Forwards and backwards. Israel Affairs, 24 (3), 500-518. DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2018.1454016

 

22.

Lachover, E., Preis, H., & Peled, E. (2019). From research on girls to girlhood studies: Exploring Israeli girlhood studies from an International and Historical Perspective. European Journal of Women's Studies, 26 (2), 132-149.   https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506818767461

 

23.

Peled, E., Lachover, E., & Preis, H. (2019). Constructions of girls’ bodies in Israeli academic literature: A critical scoping review. Journal of Gender Studies, 28 (5), 531-544. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2018.1550714

 

24.

Lachover, E. (2019). The political and civic potential of popular women's magazines: The Israeli case. International Journal of Communication, 13, 3403-3421. 1932–8036/20190005

 

25

Lachover, E., Davidson, S., & Ramati Dvir, O. (Online first November 2019). The authentic-conservative wonder woman: Israeli girls negotiate global and local meanings of femininity. Celebrity Studies. https://bit.ly/2QnwFRo

 

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Lachover, E. (Online first January 2020).  Multiplicity of feminisms: Discourse on women's paid work in the Israeli popular women's magazine La'isha during second-wave feminism Feminist Media Studies.

https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1713839

 

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Ben-Asher Gitler, I., & Lachover, E. (Accepted). Gendered Memory and Miniaturization in Graphic Design: Representations of Women in Israeli Postage Stamps. Design Issues. A Journal of History, Theory, and Criticism.

D.              Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books – Published (Refereed) (* - Since last promotion)

 

1.               Lachover, E. (2008). Women Journalists in ISRAEL. In R., Froelich & S. A. Lafky (Eds.) Women journalists in the Western world. What surveys tell us (pp. 179-200)? Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press.

 

2.       Lachover, E. (2013). Israel: Women still a minority, but in a better place. In C. M. Byerly (Ed.) The Palgrave international handbook on women and journalism. (pp. 122-136). London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://bit.ly/2HqsVuT (cited by 6 in google scholar)

 

3.       Lachover, E. (2014). Feminine biography = Feminist act? In M. Krumer-Nevo, M. Lavie-Ajayi & D. Hacker (Eds.). Feminist research methodologies (pp. 54-76). Migdarim (genders) Series. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. [Hebrew] https://bit.ly/2Hzmgw5

 

4.       Lachover, E. (2014). Women in politics as depicted in Israeli popular women’s magazines. In M., Strover & E. Ibroscheva (Eds.) Women in politics and media. Perspectives from nations in transition (pp. 15-30). New York and London: Bloomsbury. https://bit.ly/2Hzmgw5

 

5.       Lachover, E., & Lemish D. (2015). The feminization of journalism in Israel: A thesis, research and re-examination. In N., Elias, G., Nimrod, Z., Reich & A. Schejter (Eds.) Paths in communication (pp. 146-169). Tel Aviv: Tzivonim Publishing House. [Hebrew]

 

6.       Lachover, E., & Barak-Brandes, S. (2017). Mother-daughter and the body between them, In E., Lachover, E., Peled, & M. Komem (Eds.) Girlhood bodies: Absent, hidden, present (pp. 66-85).  Jerusalem: Magnes Publishing House. [Hebrew]

Girlhood bodies: Absent, hidden, present

 

7.       Peled, E., Lachover, E., & Komem, M. (2017). Israelis Girls and their body. In E. Lachover, E. Peled, & M. Komem (Eds.) Girlhood bodies: Absent, hidden, present (pp. 11-39). Jerusalem: Magnes Publishing House. [Hebrew]

 

8.       Lachover, E. (2020). A noticeable woman in the public sphere: The life of Israeli journalist Hannah Semer (1924-2003). In E. V. Shabliy., D. Kurochkin and G. Y. A. Ayee (Eds.), Global perspectives on women leadership and gender (in)equality (pp. 191-210). London: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 978-3-030-41821-2

 

9.       Lachover, E. (2020). News representation of women candidates to the 19th Israeli parliament: Between stereotypical gendered representations to equally gendered representation, In M. Shamir, H. Herzog & N. Chazan (Eds.), The Israeli gendered election gap (pp. 261-282). Jerusalem: Van Leer Institute. [Hebrew]

 

Presentations

 

 

  

Links to

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Einat_Lachover