Palestinian American Women’s Marriages within and beyond Borders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12796709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Enaya Othman (0000-0003-1701-3855, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 195-215 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Middle East Women s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1552-5864 • E-ISSN: 1558-9579 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/15525864-9767842 |
| OpenAlex | W4290998457 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
This article explores American Palestinian women’s discursive strategies and identity politics by which they take control of their marital choices. Through the analysis of sixteen in-depth interviews with second-generation Palestinian women and personal observations within the community, the article shows that nationalist and religious discourses produced by the historical contexts respectively stimulated (semi)arranged in-group marriages in the 1990s and self-initiated exogamous marriages as of the early 2000s. Among the group, Islam has become the primary form of identification, and religious discourse has been circulating within Islamic institutions post-1980s. Based on this transformation, the study draws on the strategic use of religious sentiments and Islamic discourse and argues that women’s prioritization of Islamic identity has increased their agency in spouse selection and marriage process. Women’s negotiations within an Islamic framework also expose the ways Muslim women counter and redefine gender roles by fortifying their religious beliefs and reinterpreting Islamic doctrine
Agency (philosophy · Doctrine · Identity (music · Islam · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Spouse · Wife · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law
Muslim Women in America
Unsettled Belonging
Women and Politics in the Middle East
Islamophobia and the ?Privileging? of Arab American Women
The American Experience
Palestinian Weddings
Palestinians Born in Exile
Palestinian American Women and Marital Choices Across Generations
Islamism and Secularism
Challenging Myths of Muslim Women
Nationalism and the Contingency of the Religious Return among Second‐Generation P alestinian Immigrants in the U nited S tates
Muslim Marriages in America
Strategies of Recognition’ and Palestinian Immigrant Women’s Dress
Veiled Submission
Marriage in American Muslim Communities
Patterns, Determinants, and Implications of Intermarriage Among Arab Americans
Not Too "College-Like," Not Too Normal
The 'diaspora' diaspora
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |