Industrial sexuality : gender, urbanization, and social transformation in Egypt /

"Millions of Egyptian men, women, and children first experienced industrial work, urban life, and the transition from peasant-based and handcraft cultures to factory organization and hierarchy in the years between the two world wars. Their struggles to live in new places, inhabit new customs, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hammad, Hanan (Autor)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
1900-1999
Industrialization > Social aspects > Egypt.
Urbanization > Social aspects > Egypt.
Sex role > Egypt > 20th century.
Gender identity > Egypt > 20th century.
Working class > Egypt > Social conditions.
Working class > Egypt > Economic conditions.
Industrialisation > Aspect social > Égypte.
Urbanisation > Aspect social > Égypte.
Travailleurs > Égypte > Conditions économiques.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt
Economic history.
Gender identity.
Industrialization > Social aspects.
Sex role.
Social conditions.
Urbanization > Social aspects.
Working class > Economic conditions.
Working class > Social conditions.
Egypt > Social conditions > 20th century.
Egypt > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Égypte > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Égypte > Conditions économiques > 20e siècle.
Egypt.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Townspeople, company people, and textiles : a woven history
  • pt. I. Gendered experiences
  • 1. Competing masculinities : docile workers, aggressive afandiyya, and the mechanization of the modern subject
  • 2. Urbanizing masculinity : workers, weavers, and futuwwat in violent alliances and fluid identities
  • 3. Mechanizing women : industrial workers or women adrift?
  • 4. Ladies in urban times : work, property, and gender in the modernity of the poor
  • pt. II. Industrial sexuality
  • 5. Sexually speaking : unveiling the harassment of women, child molestation, homosexuality, and hetero-intimacy in industrial-urban space
  • 6. Striking and sex-working : living with tuberculosis, syphilis, and other monsters
  • Conclusion. The anxiety of transition.

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