Author(s)

Rachel Sharaby

Department of Sociology, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel.

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.

Yemenites, Patriarchy, Life Stories, Women Immigrants, Gender Division of Labor

Sharaby, R. (2019) Agents of Patriarchy Teach Gender. Advances in Anthropology, 9, 13-31. doi: 10.4236/aa.2019.91002.