essay
Involved and 'there': the activities of Italian American women in urban neighborhoods
melting pot and beyond : Italian Americans in the year 2000 • Staten Island, New York • Published In 1987 • Pages: 239-247
By: DeSena, Judith N..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper focuses on women's activities in Greenpoint, a blue-collar neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Women's roles are examined in general with special emphasis given to Italian American women as they participate in and create many of Greenpoint's informal structures (p. 239). After a brief description of Greenpoint, DeSena reviews the literature on women's roles, and then continues with a brief summary of women's activities in Greenpoint. These activities include involvement in an informal housing network and local crime prevention surveillance. The article concludes with a brief statement on the implication of this research to sociological theory.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Housing
- Renting and leasing
- Gender status
- Police
- Crime
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Indigenous Person
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1991
- 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
- ca. 1900 - 1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Judith N. DeSena
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans