Book
Birthing the nation: strategies of Palestinian women in Israel
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 2002 • Pages: xvii, 283
By: Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of family planning among Palestinians living in Israel and how it is wrapped up in discourses on nation, economy, class, the body and gender. According to Kanaaneh, who grew up in the Galilee, the number of children desired, birth spacing, sex preference, child raising methods, contraception, household investment are all discussed within context of nation, class, gender, and modernity. The author discusses how reproduction is tied to identity issues and in this particular case the ongoing struggle between Palestinians and Israelis.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Cultural goals
- Hospitals and clinics
- Religious denominations
- Ethnoanatomy
- Sexuality
- Conception
- 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
- Book
- 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
- 1948-1995
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Galilee, Israel
- NotesAdditional notes
- Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh ; with a foreword by Hanan Ashrawi
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-275) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2002001244
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Palestinian Arabs