Table of Contents: Militant women of a fragile nation

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Abisaab, Malek Hassan.
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
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. Electronic books.
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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 Regie 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.