Industrial Sexuality : : Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt / / Hanan Hammad.
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, and est...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Abbreviations
- Introduction. Townspeople, Company People, and Textiles: A Woven History
- PART 1. 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
- PART 2. 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index