TITLE:
Agents of Patriarchy Teach Gender
AUTHORS:
Rachel Sharaby
KEYWORDS:
Yemenites, Patriarchy, Life Stories, Women Immigrants, Gender Division of Labor
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Anthropology,
Vol.9 No.1,
January
11,
2019
ABSTRACT: This article discusses veteran instructors who were employed by the ab-sorbing establishment as instructors for women immigrants from Yemen who settled in moshav-type cooperative settlements in Israel. The findings indicate that the instruction messages in the first stage after the Yemenite immigrants settled on the land included a blurring of gender. However, differential instruction was created when the permanent homes were constructed: male instructors taught the men the hard physical labor, and female instructors taught the women their roles within the domestic sphere. The instruction system recruited to the new moshav-type cooperative settlements thus perpetuated the gender division of labor and used an effective “tool” for transmitting the patriarchic messages of the absorbing establishment.