Hanan Hammad

Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt - xvi, 279 p., 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index.

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.

9781477310724

2016007756


Industrialization--Social aspects--Egypt
Urbanization--Social aspects--Egypt
Sexuality--Egypt--20th century
Gender identity--Egypt--20th century
Masculinity--Egypt--20th century
Working class--Social conditions--Egypt
Working class--Economic conditions--Egypt
Industrial-urban space--Harassment of women--Child molestation--Homosexuality--Hetero-intimacy--Egypt


Egypt--Social conditions--20th century
Egypt--Economic conditions--20th century