essay
Yemeni and Lebanese Muslim immigrant women in southeast Dearborn, Michigan
Muslim families in North America • Edmonton, Alta., Canada • Published In 1991 • Pages: 256-281, 333-357
By: Aswad, Barbara C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Aswad examines the changing roles and different experiences of Arab-American women based on interviews with twenty Yemeni and twenty Lebanese, Muslim immigrant women in Dearborn, Michigan. The change has been both good and bad. On the one hand women miss the larger kin networks of home, on the other hand, they value their freedom from their husbands' kin and mothers-in-law. In America, women have less of a role to play outside the home, which is not only boring for them, but also undermines their authority in the home. Women lose control of their children, who acculturate and assimilate more quickly, and they are blamed by their husbands for their children's apparent rebellious behavior. This among other factors, such as the economic recession and massive layoffs in the automobile industry, took its toll on the family.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Ethnic stratification
- Family
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1983-1984
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1984
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dearborn, Michigan, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Barbara C. Aswad
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-357)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92129976
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arab Americans