Academic Background
2007 – PhD - Bar-Ilan University - Interdisciplinary Program for Gender Studies. Thesis Topic: Single Mothers in Israel: Israel's
Welfare Policy: Discourse & Legitimacy, in the Years 1972-2003. Supervisors: Dr. Nitza Berkovitch & Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari.
2000 – Master's Degree –Tel Aviv University - Political Science Department, track for excellent Law, Social Studies and Political
Science Students. Thesis: Violence Against Women – Interrelations between Women’s Organizations, Media & Courts. Supervisors:
Prof. Leora Bilsky & Prof. Gad Barzilai
.
Professional Experience
2010 – Head of Gender in the Field (graduate course), Interdisciplinary Program for Gender Studies – Bar Ilan University
2010 – Academic Coordinator, Public Policy (undergraduate studies) – Open University
2007 – Fellow, Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (graduate studies) – Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College
2003 – Lecturer – Open University
Membership in Professional Societies
2009 – Executive Member of the Forum for Social Policy Study in Israel.
Scholarships & Awards
- Recipient of the president’s scholarship for excellent doctoral students – Bar Ilan University.
- Recipient of the Israeli Daphna Chair of Female & Gender Research scholarship.
Research Areas
Welfare policies; gender & public policy; stratification & equality; gender aspects of the welfare state; gender aspects of the social security system.
Publications
Articles in Periodicals and Judicial Journals
Herbst, Anat (2009) “We support the Single Parent Families Law - Poor Things”: The Single Parent Family Law- A Survey. Social Security, 80: 25-58 (Hebrew).
[The article appeared again in the course reader: Welfare State: Citizenship, Rights and Division of Resources." (2011). Raanana: The Open University. It also appeared in the book and course: "Social Security." (2011). Raanana: The Open University.]
Herbst, Anat (2011). “This is the State Defending the Woman & Offspring Abandoned and Neglected by the Husband-Father” In: Studies of the Re-Emerging State - A Collection of Zionist, Settlement & National Topics. 651-681. (Hebrew).
Chapters in Books
Herbst, Anat (2010). The National Motherly Discourse versus the Leeching [Parasite?] Discourse – The Protest of the Single Mothers, 2003. In: Abandoning State - Supervising State: Social Policy in Israel, 1985-2008. The Western Negev, Sapir Academic College. (pp.211-231). (Hebrew).
Swirski, Shlomo, Vered Kraus, Eti Konor Atias & Anat Herbst (2007). Single Mothers in Israel. In: Matat Adar Bonis (ed.): Families – A Sociological & Anthropological Perspective. Ra’anana; The Open University (pp.208-237). (Hebrew).
Literary Review
Herbst, Anat (2010). Theories of Social Justice. Social Security, 82: 170-173 (Hebrew).
Other Publications
Swirski, Shlomo, Vered Kraus, Etty Konor-Attias & Anat Herbst (2003). Solo [?] Mothers in Israel. Tel Aviv: Adva Center.
Swirski, Barbara & Anat Herbst (2003). Gender Aspects in Allocations for the Handicapped. The Adva Center, Tel Aviv. (Hebrew).
Articles in Process
Herbst, Anat. Discourse of Needs and Mercy versus Discourse of Rights: The Case of Child Support (Payment Assurance).
Herbst, Anat & Yonatan Gez. From "Crime of Passion" to "Love Does Not Kill": The Murder of Einav Rogel and the Role of Women's Organizations in the Construction of Violence against Women in Israel.
Herbst, Anat. From “Welfare-Mom” to “Warrior-Mom:” Examining the Discourse Surrounding the 2003 Single Mothers Protest in Israel.
Conferences
February 2011 – Local Authority Budgets and Gender: Where Are All the Women? The Nullification of Women in Public Reports." –Annual Israel Social Policy Forum Convention – The Academic College of Emek Yezreel.
December 2008 - Single Mothers in Israel and Social Welfare Policy: Grace or Social Rights? Global, Regional, and Local: Law, Politics, and Society in Comparative Perspectives: International Conference - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
May 2008 –“The Single Parents Law -1992 – A Survey” – The “She Has Many Faces" Conference – Israel’s Sixtieth Anniversary – Bar Ilan University.
March 2008 –“Single Mothers in Israel –Welfare Policy, Discourse & Legitimacy” –Employment, Welfare & Family Conference – Israel Examined in a Comparative Context – International Conference –Bar Ilan University.
February 2008 – “From Miserable Member of a Broken Home to a Desperately-Desperate Crying Mother” – Annual Israel Forum for Social Policy Convention –Sapir College.
February 2007 – “Single Mothers in Israel – Public Discourse & Welfare Policy” - Annual Israel Forum for Social Policy Convention – Ben Gurion University.
February 2007 - “From Deserted Mum to Fighting Mum” – Annual Sociological Convention of the Israeli Sociological Association – Haifa University.
January 2007 – “She Did the Zionist Thing…She Sacrificed Her Family for the Homeland” – Discourse & Gender Conference – Bar Ilan University.
June 2006 –The Welfare State & the Lost Workers” – study day on the topic: Can Employment Release Us from Poverty? Haifa University.
April 2005 – “No One Dies of Love! Violence Against Women – Interrelations – Women’s Organizations, Media & Courts – Convention on Feminism, Law and Social Change – Tel Aviv University.
January 2004 –“Mothers & Children in the Aftermath of Divorce –Social & Welfare Aspects” – Annual Conference on Family & Law in Israel –Bar-Ilan University.
February 2003 – The Budget’s Effect on Women; The Case Study of the Single Mother”- “Feminization of Poverty Conference – Tel Aviv University.
