Coping with `forbidden love' and loveless marriage Educated Bedouin women from the Negev

Bibliographic Data

ID2402284
AuthorsSarab Abu‐rabia‐queder (0000-0002-4384-0451, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author), Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder (Hebrew University, Israel,)
Year2007
Volume8
Issue3
Pages297-323
Publication date2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1466138107081026
OpenAlexW2046249199
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited15

The issue of love and marriage is considered a taboo topic that has not yet been researched in the Bedouin community in Israel. This is especially true of the subjective experience of Bedouin women. This article describes the encounter of Bedouin women, who were the first in their tribes to study in higher education institutions, with the issue of love connections with men from `forbidden tribes' and other difficult marital situations arising from their education and employment opportunities. I describe several types of marital situations created by this encounter: `tragic heroines', `matchless women' and `women ahead of their times', the common theme being that all these women had to sacrifice their emotions for the sake of their independence. I describe their ways of struggling in terms of splitting mechanisms that shift between attachment and detachment of body-mind, reason-emotion and public-private spheres on two levels: behavior and consciousness

Consciousness · Coping (psychology · Independence (probability theory · Kinship · Sociology · Taboo · Theme (computing · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology

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