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Militant women of a fragile nation

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Main Author: Abisaab, Malek Hassan
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
Subjects:
Women tobacco workers > Lebanon > Social conditions.
Women tobacco workers > Political activity > Lebanon > History.
Tobacco industry > Lebanon > History.
Tobacco workers > Labor unions > Lebanon > History.
Working class women > Lebanon > Social conditions.
Women in the labor movement > Lebanon > History.
Women's rights > Lebanon > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • From loom to puff: women and waged labor in colonial Lebanon
  • Domesticity and waged labor: gendered and class polemics in colonial and postcolonial times
  • At the legal frontiers: "unruly" workingwomen between colonial authority and the national state, 1940-1946
  • Rural displacement and migration among the Régie workers, 1950-1980
  • Women negotiate family and work: 1950-1997
  • "Qati al-arzaq min qati al-anaq": gendered boundaries and class, tobacco women's struggle, 1960-1965.

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