Industrial sexuality : gender, urbanization, and social transformation in Egypt / by Hanan Hammad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammad, Hanan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class.

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

Gender identity.

Sex role.

Urbanization--Social aspects.

Urbanization.

Industrialization--Social aspects.

Egypt--Social conditions--20th century.

Egypt.

Egypt--Economic conditions--20th century.

Industrialization--Social aspects--Egypt.

Industrialization.

Urbanization--Social aspects--Egypt.

Sex role--Egypt--20th century.

Gender identity--Egypt--20th century.

Working class--Egypt--Social conditions.

Working class--Egypt--Economic conditions.

Economic history.

Working class--Economic conditions.

Working class--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xvi, 279 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2016]

Summary:

Millions of Egyptian men, women, and children first experienced industrial work, urban life, and the transition from peasant-based and handcraft cultures to factory organization and hierarchy in the years between the two world wars. Their struggles to live in new places, inhabit new customs, and establish and abide by new urban norms and moral and gender orders underlie the story of the making of modern urban life-a story that has not been previously told from the perspective of Egypt's working class. Reconstructing the ordinary urban experiences of workers in al-Mahalla al-Kubra, home of the largest and most successful Egyptian textile factory. Industrial Sexuality investigates how the industrial urbanization of Egypt transformed masculine and feminine identities, sexualities, and public morality. Basing her account on archival sources that no researcher has previously used, Hanan Hammad describes how coercive industrial organization and hierarchy concentrated thousands of men, women, and children at work and at home under the authority of unfamiliar men, thus intensifying sexual harassment, child molestation, prostitution, and public exposure of private heterosexual and homosexual relationships. By juxtaposing these social experiences of daily life with national modernist discourses, Hammad demonstrates that ordinary industrial workers, handloom weavers, street vendors, lower-class landladies, and prostitutes-no less than the middle and upper classes-played a key role in shaping the Egyptian experience of modernity. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction. Townspeople, company people, and textiles : a woven history

pt. I. Gendered experiences

1. Competing masculinities : docile workers, aggressive afandiyya, and the mechanization of the modern subject

2. Urbanizing masculinity : workers, weavers, and futuwwat in violent alliances and fluid identities

3. Mechanizing women : industrial workers or women adrift?

4. Ladies in urban times : work, property, and gender in the modernity of the poor

pt. II. Industrial sexuality

5. Sexually speaking : unveiling the harassment of women, child molestation, homosexuality, and hetero-intimacy in industrial-urban space

6. Striking and sex-working : living with tuberculosis, syphilis, and other monsters

Conclusion. The anxiety of transition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index.

Arab American Book Award - Non-Fiction, Honorable Mention, 2017

ISBN:

9781477310656

1477310657

9781477310724

147731072X

OCLC:

944014256