essay

Equality does not mean sameness: the role of women within the Lubavitcher marriage

Encounters with American ethnic cultures • Tuscaloosa, Ala. • Published In 1990 • Pages: 151-178

By: Baldinger, Philip.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

This work is a student essay for a senior conference in anthropology focused around the concept of ethnicity. Fieldwork averaged about five months for the students involved. Baldinger focuses on the role of married women in the Lubavitcher Hasidim community, and presents data from Philadelphia and Brooklyn. Baldinger draws no specific conclusions about the status of married women, but he seems to accept the Lubavitcher view that the roles of men and women are different and complementary, and that women's role are equal to or 'more equal' to men's roles.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

History and culture change

Gender status

Family relationships

Theological systems

Purification and atonement

cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

North American Hasidic Jews

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

1996

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 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.

5: Excellent Primary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

Ron Johnson ; 1995

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

several months within 1985 - 1987 time period

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

variable

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Philadelphia, Pa., and Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

NotesAdditional notes

Philip Baldinger

Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-359)

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

89033864

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Jews