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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Cainkar, Louise
Title:
Palestinian-American Muslim women: living on the margins of
two worlds
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Muslim families in North America, edited by Earle H.
Waugh, Sharon McIrvin Abu-Laban, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
Published By: Original publisher
Muslim families in North America, edited by Earle H.
Waugh, Sharon McIrvin Abu-Laban, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
Edmonton, Alta., Canada: University of Alberta Press.
1991. 282-308, 333-357 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Louise Cainkar
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 1999. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Arab Americans (NK09)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Gender status (562);
Ethnic stratification (563);
Regulation of marriage (582);
Arranging a marriage (584);
Status of adolescents (882);
Adolescent activities (883);
Students (877);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the difficult experience of growing up
female for Palestinian-American women, whose lives were severely constrained by traditional
sexual mores and gender ideals. It is based on participant observation, informal
interviews, and formal open-ended life history interviews with 22 Palestinian-American
women born between 1943 and 1961. Beginning with grade school, Palestinian-American women
have had to contend with racial prejudice in school and gender inequality in the home,
where they had to serve on their brothers. As teenagers their lives were even more
constricted by traditional proscriptions on sexual behavior, to the point where they had to
sever their relationship with their non-Arab girlfriends. As young adults they were forced
into arranged marriages. College for some of the women offerred a respite and an
opportunity to refashion their ethnic and gender identities, but at the cost of losing
their marital appeal to tradition-bound Palestine-American men. Cainkar argues that the
experience of Palestine-American women compared to Palestine women has been one of greater
gender inequality, because the generally freer American society was closed to women,
whereas men were free to participate in it.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
28
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
nk09-028
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-357)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1982-1985
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Sociologist-4,5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Ian Skoggard ; 1998
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1943-1985
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Chicago, Ill., United States
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Arab Americans
