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Agents or victims of religious ideology: approaches to locating Hasidic women in feminist studies

New world Hasidim : ethnographic studies of Hasidic Jews in America • Albany, N.y. • Published In 1995 • Pages: 161-180

By: Morris, Bonnie.

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

This is a study of the changing gender roles and statuses of Lubavitcher women in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. In the 1950s there was a great explosion of female involvement in worldly affairs and education in contrast to women's traditional and expected roles as wife, mother, and homemaker. This article explores the Hasidic woman's response to American feminist thought and how they, as a group, are located in feminist scholarship. Morris gathered her data for this paper from the analysis of forty years of women's writings and publication, attending Lubavitch women's conferences and educational institutions, interviewing community spokeswomen and writers, and participating in religious celebrations (pp. 164-165).

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

Gender status

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.

Historian

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

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

John Beierle ; 1995

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

1986-1988

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)

Lubavitch; Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

NotesAdditional notes

Bonnie Morris

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180)

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

94000300

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Jews