Militant women of a fragile nation / Malek Abisaab.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abisaab, Malek., Author.

Series:

Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.

Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women tobacco workers--Lebanon--Social conditions.

Women tobacco workers.

Women tobacco workers--Political activity--Lebanon--History.

Tobacco industry--Lebanon--History.

Tobacco industry.

Tobacco workers--Labor unions--Lebanon--History.

Tobacco workers.

Working class women--Lebanon--Social conditions.

Working class women.

Women in the labor movement--Lebanon--History.

Women in the labor movement.

Women's rights--Lebanon--History.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Militant Women of a Fragile Nation, Malek Abisaab takes a gendered approach to labor conflicts, anticolonial struggles, and citizenship in modern Lebanon. The author traces the conditions and experiences of women workers at the French Tobacco Monopoly.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815650645

0815650647

OCLC:

785782981