Pornography and sexual representations

Queer culture and queer activism

Queer kinship

Authored books
1. Ziv A. 2013. Sexual Thoughts: Queer Theory, Pornography, and the Politics of Sexuality. Resling Press. 278 pages (Hebrew).
2. Ziv A. 2015. "Explicit Utopias: Re-writing the Sexual in Women’s Pornography". SUNY Press. 297 pages.

Editorship of collective volumes
1. Qedar Y, Ziv A, and Kenner O. (eds). 2003. Beyond Sexuality: Selected Papers in Lesbian & Gay Studies and Queer Theory. Hakibbutz Hameuchad. 368 pages (Hebrew).
2. Gross A, Amalia Z, and Yosef R. (eds.) An Other Sex: Selected Essays in Israeli Queer Studies. (Accepted). Hakibutz Hameuchad Press, the Migdarim series. (Hebrew).

Refereed chapters in collective volumes
1. Ziv A. 2007. “Diva Interventions: Dana International and Israeli Gender Culture”. Queer Popular Culture. Ed. Thomas Peele. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan. 119-135.
2. Ziv A. 2007. Judith Butler - Gender Trouble. Venues of Feminist Thinking: An Introduction to Gender Studies. Eds. Niza Yanay, Tamar El-Or, Orly Lubin and Hannah Naveh. The Open University, Israel. 619-661(Hebrew).
3. Ziv A. 2008 . "Transgressing Gender, Betraying Nationality: The Performative Politics of Black Laundry". Gaps of Citizenship: Immigration, Reproduction, and Identity in Israel. Eds.Yosi Yona and Adrianna Kemp. The Van Leer Institute-Hakibbutz Hameuchad Press. 290-320. (Hebrew).
4. Ziv A. 2009. Shameful Fantasies: Cross Gender Queer Sex in Lesbian Erotic Fiction". Gay Shame. Eds. David Halperin and Valerie Traub. University of Chicago Press .165-175.
5. Ziv A. 2013. "Paper Agony: on the Absent Experience of Pain in the Sado-masochistic Text". Pain in the Flesh: Representations of the Body in Sickness, Suffering, and Jouissance. Eds. Orit Meital and Shira Stav. Critical Mass series, Ben Gurion University and Kinnert, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir Press. 145-165 (Hebrew).
6. Ziv A. 2014. "Queer Trouble: Dilemmas of Knowledge, Power, and Community". Feminist Research Methodologies. Eds. Michal Krumer-Nevo, Maya Lavie-Ajayi and Daphna Hacker. Hakibbutz Hameuchad Press, Migdarim series. 210-228 (Hebrew).
7. Eglander Y, Ziv A. 2014 (Accepted). "The Conservative Movement’s Ruling on the Issue of Same-Sex Sexuality: A Critical Reading". The Conservative Movement and Halacha. Ed. Avinoam Rozenk. The Van Leer Institute-Magnes Press. (Hebrew).

Refereed articles in scientific journals
1. Ziv A. 1994. "The Pervert's Progress: An analysis of Story of O and the Beauty Trilogy." Feminist Review 46:61-75.
2. Ziv A. 2004. "Between Sexual Commodities and Sexual Subjects: The Feminist Pornography Debate". Theory and Criticism 25, 163-194.
3. Ziv A. 2010. “Performative Politics in Israeli Queer Anti-Occupation Activism”. GLQ. 16.4. 537-556.
4. Ziv A. (2014) “Girl Meets Boy: Cross-Gender Queer Sex and the Promise of of Pornography.” Sexualities 17(7): 885-905.
5. Ziv A. (Accepted) Our Virgin Friends and Wives? Female Sexual Subjectivity in Yona Wallach’s Poetry.

Ph.D. 1993-2004,Tel-Aviv University, Comparative Literature
M.A. 1989-1991, Brown University, Comparative Literature
B.A. 1985-1988, Tel-Aviv University, Double Major: English and
Psychology, cum laude

Current :

Chair, The Gender Studies Program, BGU

2014- Senior Lecturer, The Gender Studies Program, BGU.

Previous :

2008-2014 Lecturer, The Gender Studies Program, BGU.

2008-2009: Adjunct Lecturer, School of Communications, the Interdisciplinary
Center, Herzliya.

2007-2009: Adjunct Lecturer, The Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies, Dep. of Sociology, and the Amirim Program for Outstanding Students in the
Humanities, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

2006-2008: Adjunct Lecturer, The Gender Studies Program, BGU.

2005-2013: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Literature, and the Women and Gender Studies Program, Tel Aviv University.

2002-2003: Lecturer, The New Seminar for Visual Culture, Critique, and Theory, Tel Aviv.

2000-2004: Instructor, Dep. of Comparative Literature & Poetics, and the Women and Gender Studies Program, TAU.

1996-1999: Lecturer, Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv.