Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-376) and index.
Contents
Map of Syria and Lebanon in the Mandate Era -- War and the Advent of French Rule: A Crisis of Paternity -- World War I: Famine, Memory, and a Shattered Social Order -- Soldiers and Patriarchs: Pillars of Colonial Paternalism -- Bureaucrats: Mother France's Civilizing Mission -- Paternal Republicanism and the Construction of Subaltern Citizens -- State Social Policy: Constructing a Hierarchy of Citizens -- Revolt: The Rise of Subaltern Movements -- Gender and the Legal Boundaries of the Colonial Civic Order -- Political Rights: Women's Suffrage as a Revolutionary Threat -- Veil and the Dual Legal System -- Civil Rights: Patriotic Motherhood and Religious Law Reform -- Social Rights: Emergence of a Colonial Welfare State -- Gendering the Public: Spatial Boundaries of the Colonial Civic Order -- Remapping the Urban Landscape -- Street Violence: Regendering an Old Urban Space -- Cinemas: Gendering a New Urban Space -- Press: Gendering the Virtual Public -- World War II and the Transformation of the Colonial Civic Order -- Climax of the Colonial Welfare State -- Claiming Paternity of Independent Republics -- Making of Postcolonial Citizens.