essay
Strategies for strength: women and personal empowerment in Lubavitcher Hasidim
Encounters with American ethnic cultures • Tuscaloosa, Ala. • Published In 1990 • Pages: 171-221
By: Srinivasan, Gita.
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. Srinivasan focuses on the role of women in Lubavitcher Hasidim culture. She presents data from three different Lubavitcher communities in her analysis of women's empowerment. She suggest that the Hasidim have created two gender-specific cultures (one of men and one of women), and concludes that women are empowered by Hasidic traditions and practices.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Rest days and holidays
- Gender status
- Theological systems
- 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
- 1985-1986
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- mid 1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lubavitch; northern Virginia, Philadelphia, Pa., and Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gita Srinivasan
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-359)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89033864
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jews