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Militant Women of a Fragile Nation

Militant Women of a Fragile Nation

Abisaab, Malek

Hardcover

Series: Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial MovementsWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0815632126
ISBN13: 9780815632122
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Dec 30 2009
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In Militant Women of a Fragile Nation, Malek Abisaab takes a gendered approach to labor conflicts, anti-colonial 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 which 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 illumi-nates the impact of class and gender in the transformation of modern Lebanon.

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