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Author Abisaab, Malek Hassan.

Title Militant women of a fragile nation [electronic resource] / Malek Abisaab.

Imprint Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxxi, 300 p.
Series Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780815632122 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815650645 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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