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Women, the Hajab and the Intifada
MERIP Middle East report • 20 (164/165) • Published In 1990 • Pages: 24-28, 71
By: Hammami, Rema.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an account of the campaign during the Intifada to impose on all Gaza women the wearing of the HAJIB, or headscarf. Identified with peasant women, the HAJIB was largely dispensed with by a growing educated, urban, and petit bourgeois class of Palestinian women, beginning in the 1950s. In the late 1970s, Hamas revived it use as a sign of piety and political affiliation. In 1988, one year into the intifada, HAMAS waged a campaign to make all women wear the HAJIB, in some cases violently enforced by male youth. When the campaign spread to the West Bank, women resisted and the attacks increased. The Unified National Leadership realized the campaign was too divisive and stepped in to condemn the attacks as unpatriotic and instead praised women's role in the national movement.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Special garments
- Gender status
- Political movements
- Religious offenses
- Revolution
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Palestinians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1948-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Gaza, Occupied Territories, Israel
- NotesAdditional notes
- Rema Hammami
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87641135
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Palestinian Arabs