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Title: Militant women of a fragile nation Malek Abisaab.
Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
Main Entry: Abisaab, Malek Hassan.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press,
Publication Date: c2010.
Publication Place: Syracuse, N.Y. :
ISBN: 9780815632122 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815650645 (e-book)
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.
Electronic books.
Series: Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
Edition: 1st ed.
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.

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