TY - BOOK AU - Abisaab,Malek Hassan ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Militant women of a fragile nation T2 - Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms AV - HD6073.T62 L433 2010eb U1 - 331.4/83371095692 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Syracuse, N.Y. PB - Syracuse University Press KW - Women tobacco workers KW - Lebanon KW - Social conditions KW - Political activity KW - History KW - Tobacco industry KW - Tobacco workers KW - Labor unions KW - Working class women KW - Women in the labor movement KW - Women's rights KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 R�egie 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10534253 ER -