essay
Immigrant Palestinian women evaluate their lives
Family and gender among American Muslims : issues facing Middle Eastern immigrants and their descendants • Philadelphia • Published In 1996 • Pages: 41-58, 320
By: Cainkar, Louise.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article describes the assessment by immigrant Palestinian women of the quality of their own lives not only as women but as Palestinian women in particular. The study is based on the author's fieldwork in Chicago's Palestinian community, which resulted in detailed life histories of twenty-two women (p. 41). The women's assessment is based on the values they hold, their sense of history, what they believe to be desirable, possible achievements, and the ways in which their lives compare to those around them (e.g., the parental generation, non-Arabs, etc.).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Gender status
- Ethnosociology
- Education system
- Liberal arts education
- 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.
- 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- 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. 58)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95054109
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arab Americans