Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2010.
Physical Description:
xxxi, 300 p.
Series:
Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
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.
