Product details

Format:

Hardback

Language of text:

English

Isbn-13:

9780815632122, 978-0815632122

Author:

Malek Abisaab

Publisher:

Syracuse University Press

Series:

Beyond Dominant Paradigms in the Middle East, Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms

Imprint:

Syracuse University Press

Publication date:

2010-03-15

Pages:

304

Product dimensions:

165.1mm (w) x 241.3mm (h) x 25.4mm (d)

Overview

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. Challenging the prevailing assumptions about culturally inscribed roles for Middle Eastern women, the book highlights traditions of public activism and militancy among rural women that are in turn adapted to the spaces of the factory. Women employed distinct strategies involving kinship, sectarian, gender, and class ties to enhance their work conditions and social benefits. Drawing on extensive ethnographic data, the author convincingly argues that the condition of women can only be explained by exploring the shifting relationship between culture, societal arrangements, and economic settings. Abisaab's richly detailed work illuminates the impact of class and gender in the transformation of modern Lebanon.

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