Industrial sexuality gender, urbanization, and social transformation in Egypt / by Hanan Hammad.

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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index.
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LCCN 2016007756
ISBN9781477310656 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781477310724 (pbk. : alk. paper)