Industrial sexuality gender, urbanization, and social transformation in Egypt / by Hanan Hammad.
| Author/creator | Hammad, Hanan |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Austin : University of Texas Press, [2016] |
| Description | xvi, 279 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016007756 |
| ISBN | 9781477310656 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781477310724 (pbk. : alk. paper) |