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