Hi!
My name is Nadav Perez-Vaisvidovsky, Ph.D. I am a doctor of Social Work and a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Social Work at Ashkelon Academic College. My area of expertise is fathers and social policy.
Parental Leave for Fathers Fathers in the Social Services
Halpern, A., Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N, and Mizrahi, R. (2022). Involving fathers in family social services in Israel: in the shadow of a conflicted policy. Families, Relationships and Societies, 11 (4), 499–516. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16297306778771
Strier, R. and Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2021), Intersectionality and fatherhood: Theorizing non-hegemonic fatherhoods. Journal of Family Theory and Review, 13: 334 346. https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12412
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N., Mizrahi, R. Halpern, A. (2020). The Mother-Based Intervention: Policy, Social Work, and the Absence of Fathers in the Social Services in Israel, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaa004
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2019). In the name of the mother: The status of fathers in Israeli social policy, as seen through parental leave and work hour regulation. Hevra Ve’Revaha [Hebrew]
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N., & Aviram, U. (2019). The rehabilitation of the mentally disabled in the community act in Israel: Entrepreneurship, leadership, and capitalizing on opportunities in policy making. International journal of law and psychiatry, 66, 101457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2019.101457
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N., and Berkovitch, A. (2019). A Leave from Fatherhood: Perceptions of Fatherhood and Their Expressions in Court Rulings on Parental Leave for Fathers. Bar Ilan Law Review.
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2019) Israel: Leave policy, familialism and the neoliberal welfare state. In: Moss, P., Duvander, A. and Koslowski, A. (Eds): Parental Leave and Beyond: Recent Developments, Current Issues, Future Directions. Bristol: Policy Press
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2019). Enemies, Allies or Citizens? The Subject Positions of Men in the Making of Parental Leave for Fathers in Israel. Families, Relationships and Societies. DOI https://doi.org/10.1332/204674318X15447903073633
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2018). In the name of the mother: The status of fathers in Israeli social policy, as seen through parental leave and work hour regulation. Hevra Ve’Revaha, 38 (2), 281-310
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N & Aviram, U. (2017). The Community Rehabilitation of the Mentally Disabled Act: Entrepreneurship, leadership and seizing opportunities in policymaking. Bitachon Soczialy. 101. Pp 141-167. [Hebrew]
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2017). Fathers as Frauds – the Construction of Masculinity as Welfare Fraud in Parental Leave in Israel. Journal of Men and Masculinities. Advance Online Publication. DOI 10.1177/1097184X17696175
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2013) “Fathers at a crossroads: The combined effect of organizational and cultural factors on the making of gender-related policy“. Social Politics 20(3): 407-429.
Perez, N. (2010). “The Abandoning of Fathers as Surveillance of Families: Fathers in the Israeli Legislative Discourse“. In Katz, H and Tzfadia, E (eds.), Abandoning State – Surveillancing State” : Social Policy in Israel, 1985-2008. Tel-Aviv: Resling [Hebrew]
