essay
Palestinian women in American society
development of Arab-American identity • Ann Arbor • Published In 1994 • Pages: 85-105
By: Cainkar, Louise.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay examines the relationship between gender, class, ethnicity, socio-political context and the Palestinian immigrant experience. After providing a general profile of Palestinian women immigrants in the United States (with a focus on Chicago), the article continues with a look at the effect of socio-economic status on their lives, especially as it interacts with ethnicity. The profile, data, and conclusions in this report are drawn from the author's research on Palestinians as a whole and Palestinian women in particular, both as immigrants and as U.S. born children of immigrants, during the period of 1982-1986. Follow-up interviews with Palestinian women in Chicago were later conducted to assess any changes that may have occurred over time. Cainkar notes that gender seems to be a critical variable determining patterns of daily life among Palestinian immigrants, and at least as important as class and ethnicity.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Sociocultural trends
- Ethos
- Ethnic stratification
- Classes
- Social control
- Gender roles and issues
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Arab Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- 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.
- Sociologist
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1982-1986
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Louise Cainkar
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-105)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94015616
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arab Americans