Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, And Social Transformation In Egypt - 9781477310724

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

• | Author: Hanan Hammad
• | Publisher: University of Texas Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 29, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 299 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 147731072X
• | ISBN-13: 9781477310724