Michal Komem

This article explores professional practices employed in services for transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness in Israel from the perspective of the service providers. The study combines individual interviews with focus groups with 28 staff members of three services. Thematic analysis of the interviews yielded two main themes. T...

This paper examines the perspective of marginalized young women, training to become mentors for marginalized girls, with respect to the role of the mentor. Taking a critical feminist perspective, this article gives expression to the research participants’ unique knowledge, based on life experience as marginalized girls and their lived experiences....

This article examines a programme for Bedouin youth in the unrecognised Bedouin villages in the Naqab/Negev desert in Israel, as a case study of the cultural adaptation and implementation of Westernised youth programmes among indigenous minority groups. Our analysis, based on an exploratory qualitative study that probes the accounts of 11 professio...

This study focuses on marginalized young women, participating in programs designed to meet their personal, vocational and social needs. The study's aims were to include gender-related aspects in the exploration of the prevalence of risk situations and to test a predicting model for risk situations based on the young women's demographic characterist...

Little is known about the unique gendered experiences of runaway and homeless girls. This feminist study approaches the body and movement of these girls as potential sites of social control. We explored whether and how social values and directives that view the home as the proper place for girls are reflected in the narratives of 17 Israeli girls w...

The public discourse in Israel relates to girls mainly in connection to their body and associates their body with appearance, sexuality, vulnerability and victimization. The book Girls and their Bodies calls attention to the social construction of girls' bodies in Israel which tend to disavow, disregard, objectify and expose them simultaneously. Th...

The article presents the contribution of critical feminist theory, especially intersectional theory, to intervention with adolescent girls. Intersectional theory emphasises the structural intersection of social categories, such as gender, class and ethnicity, which lies behind inequality, along with the need to acknowledge women's life experiences,...

The purpose of this article is to identify the professional discourse on girls over time, and to examine the extent and the ways in which feminist ideas and theories are expressed in this discourse, and in particular, in the scholarly social work body of knowledge in Israel. Thus, the article presents a feminist-historical analysis of research on g...