In ""Militant Women of a Fragile Nation"", Malek Abisaab takes a
gendered approach to labor conflicts, anticolonial struggles, and
citizenship in modern Lebanon. The author traces the conditions and
experiences of women workers at the French Tobacco Monopoly.
Challenging the prevailing assumptions about culturally inscribed
roles for Middle Eastern women, the book highlights traditions of
public activism and militancy among rural women that are in turn
adapted to the spaces of the factory. Women employed distinct
strategies involving kinship, sectarian, gender, and class ties to
enhance their work conditions and social benefits. Drawing on
extensive ethnographic data, the author convincingly argues that
the condition of women can only be explained by exploring the
shifting relationship between culture, societal arrangements, and
economic settings. Abisaab's richly detailed work illuminates the
impact of class and gender in the transformation of modern Lebanon.
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