Militant women of a fragile nation
By: Malek Abisaab.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780815632122
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From loom to puff: women and waged labor in colonial Lebanon; title: Domesticity and waged labor: gendered and class polemics in colonial and postcolonial times; title: At the legal frontiers: "unruly" workingwomen between colonial authority and the national state, 1940-1946; title: Rural displacement and migration among the Régie workers, 1950-1980; title: Women negotiate family and work: 1950-1997; title: "Qati al-arzaq min qati al-anaq": gendered boundaries and class, tobacco women's struggle, 1960-1965.