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Author Abisaab, Malek.

Title Militant women of a fragile nation / Malek Abisaab.

Publication Info. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 300 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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 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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Subject Women tobacco workers -- Lebanon -- Social conditions.
Women tobacco workers.
Lebanon.
Social conditions.
Women tobacco workers -- Political activity -- Lebanon -- History.
Women tobacco workers -- Political activity.
History.
Tobacco industry -- Lebanon -- History.
Tobacco industry.
Tobacco workers -- Labor unions -- Lebanon -- History.
Tobacco workers -- Labor unions.
Working class women -- Lebanon -- Social conditions.
Working class women.
Women in the labor movement -- Lebanon -- History.
Women in the labor movement.
Women's rights -- Lebanon -- History.
Women's rights.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1930-2000.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Abisaab, Malek Hassan. Militant women of a fragile nation. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2009039098
ISBN 9780815650645 (electronic book)
0815650647 (electronic book)
9780815632122 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0815632126