About me

I was born in Mexico City within an Arab-Jewish family and immigrated to Israel when I was 19 years old. I got my PhD in Philosophy, writing on grotesque bodies and Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy. Later on I specialized in feminist Philosophy and got a research and teaching position at the Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Program at The University of Haifa. My central areas of research are feminist phenomenology and philosophies of the body and the embodied experience. My present work and publications address feminist philosophical perspectives on childbirth and the maternal embodied subject. Lately, I have mainly focused on the phenomenon of obstetric violence as gender violence – and I have published several papers looking at this subject from different philosophical perspectives in journals such as Human Studies, Feminist Theory, The European Journal of Women’s Studies and Hypatia. 

I live in Haifa with my husband Ron and my two children, Noa and Eviatar. I enjoy swimming every day and I cannot work without listening to music: The National, Pearl Jam and Radiohead are my permanent favorite companions.