Industrial sexuality : gender, urbanization, and social transformation in Egypt /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hammad, Hanan (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	Government Document eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, [2016]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Egypt > Social conditions > 20th century. Egypt > Economic conditions > 20th century. Industrialization > Social aspects > Egypt. Urbanization > Social aspects > Egypt. Sex role > Egypt > 20th century. Gender identity > Egypt > 20th century. Working class > Egypt > Social conditions. Working class > Egypt > Economic conditions. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.