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Book SynopsisThompson shows how post-WWI Syrians and Lebanese mobilized to claim the terms of citizenship enjoyed in the European metropole. Colonial Citizens highlights gender as a central battlefield upon which the relative rights and obligations of states and citizens were established.
Trade ReviewThis book deserves to be widely read. One of the most significant contributions to the historiography of modern Syria and Lebanon in recent years. -- Margaret L. Meriwether American Historical Review
Table of ContentsI. War and the Advent of French Rule: A Crisis of Paternity 1. World War I: Famine, Memory, and a Shattered Social Order 2. Soldiers and Patriarchs: Pillars of Colonial Paternalism 3. Bureaucrats: Mother France's Civilizing Mission II. Paternal Republicanism and the Construction of Subaltern Citizens 4. State Social Policy: Constructing a Hierarchy of Citizens 5. Revolt: The Rise of Subaltern Movements III. Gender and the Legal Boundaries of the Colonial Civic Order 6. Political Rights: Women's Suffrage as a Revolutionary Threat 7. The Veil and the Dual Legal System 8. Civil Rights: Patriotic Motherhood and Religious Law Reform 9. Social Rights: Emergence of a Colonial Welfare State IV. Gendering The Public: Spatial Boundaries Of The Colonial Civic Order 10. Remapping the Urban Landscape 11. Street Violence: Regendering an Old Urban Space 12. Cinemas: Gendering a New Urban Space 13. The Press: Gendering the Virtual Public V. World War II and the Transformation of the Colonial Civic Order 14. Climax of the Colonial Welfare State 15. Claiming Paternity of Independent Republics 16. The Making of Postcolonial Citizens
