Book
Gender in crisis: women and the Palestinian resistance movement
Columbia University Press • New York • Published In 1991 • Pages:
By: Peteet, Julie Marie.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a history of Palestinian women's political activism. Peteet looks at both the pre-1948 women's movement and the post-1948 movement in Lebanon where she did her fieldwork. Peteet is interested in the relationship between the women's movement and the national movement, political consciousnesss and feminist consciousness, political activism and gender relations. How has the Resistance mobilized women and how has it impacted on traditional division of labor and gender ideology? She interviews a variety of women involved in the movement, even if only peripherally, including those women who are university educated, illiterate, single, married, widowed, well-off, poor, mothers of two children, mothers of eight children. She concludes that while the Resistance awakened women to a feminist consciousness, their struggle for gender equality and rights within the movement has been constrained by the larger struggle for national self-determination.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- External relations
- Political movements
- Revolution
- Aftermath of combat
- Private welfare agencies
- Ethnosociology
- 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
- 1980-1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1948-1984
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lebanon
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Julie M. Peteet
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90025824
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Palestinian Arabs