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09:30–09:45 Gathering

09:45–10:45 Opening lecture

Greetings: Prof. Shai Lavi, Director, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Tel Aviv University

Prof. Dafna Yoel, Tel Aviv University: “Sex and Gender in Medicine—Beyond the Binary”

Chair: Dr. Hagai Boas, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

11:00–12:30 Simultaneous sessions

Session 1: Yodot and the Body

Chair: Dr. Rona Brayer-Garb, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Anat Shalem, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Bar-Ilan University: “The Phenomenology of Pregnancy Has Not Been Chosen as the Basis for the Ethics of Induced Abortions”

Sharon Orshalimy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: “Being a Knowledgeable Woman—Reproductive Literacy and Feminist Epistemology”

Dr. Orli Dahan, Tel-Hai Academic College: “ ‘Birth Awareness’ as a Bridge over Troubled Waters”

Session 2: A Critical Look at Birth and Gynecology

Chair: Dr. Omi Leissner

Dr. Lena Sagi-Dayan and Keshet Korem, Carmel Medical Center; Technion—Israel Institute of Technology: “The Incidence and Characteristics of Obstetric Violence in Israel”

Sara Tancman, Briah Foundation: “The Gynecological Examination—Findings of a Survey of 6,500 Women and Its Effect on the Health System”

Dr. Neta Avnon, Tel Aviv University: “The Construction of the Science of Gynecology—A Critical Feminist View”

12:30–13:30 Lunch break

13:30–14:30 Selected Intersections in the Loaded History of the Concepts of Sex and Gender

Dr. Amalia Ziv, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

14:45–16:15 Simultaneous sessions

Session 3: Medical Technology and Gender Aspects

Chair: Dr. Hedva Eyal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; The University of Haifa

Noga Friedman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: “I Do Not Want More Children, So I Must Do Something About it”—Vasectomy as a Test Case for the Link between Masculinity and Fertility

Dr. Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty, Sapir Academic College, and Prof. Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: “The Ectopolitics of Fertility: Gender, Social, and Ethical Aspects of the Artificial Uterus”

Dr. Limor Meoded-Danon, Bar-Ilan University: “Temporal and Sociomedical Approaches to Intersexual Bodies”

Session 4: Transparent Illnesses and Disability

Chair: Sharon Orshalimy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Dr. Adi Finkelstein, Lev Academic Center, Jerusalem: “From Transparent Illness to Present Illness—Women’s Coping with Fibromyalgia”

Aya Wertheimer and Nitzan Bernstein, Endometriosis Israel: “The Great Endo Survey”

Raz Robas, Roni Rottler, and Lirit Shafir Shemesh, Bar-Ilan University: “Women with a Disability and Access to Health Services: Double Discrimination”

16:30–18:00 What Is the Difference between Gendered Medicine and Feminist Medicine?

Chair: Prof. Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Dr. Lior Shahar, Tel Aviv University; Dr. Lior Baruch, Maccabi Health Care Services: “What Is the Difference between Gendered Medicine and Feminist Medicine and What Is Their Place in Medical Education?”

Dr. Ayelet Shai, The Galilee Medical Center; Bar-Ilan University, and Dr. Shahar Koffler, Assuta Ashdod University Hospital: “Is This Really Gender-Aware Medicine? A Feminist View of ‘Gendered Medicine’ ”

Respondent:

Dr. Shiri Tenenbaum, deputy director, Hadassah Medical Center Ein Kerem; head, the Association for Gender-Aware Medicine

Dr. Yaron Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University; The Shalom Hartman Institute

Academic Committee:

Sharon Orshalimy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Dr. Hagai Boas, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Prof. Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev