Description
Book SynopsisWith fascinating glimpses into the lives of working-class men and women, this study of the urbanization of a provincial Egyptian factory town reveals how industrialization transformed masculine and feminine identities, sexualities, and public morality.
Trade ReviewIndustrial Sexuality is an important contribution to the fields of both Middle Eastern and gender studies...the meticulous nature of Hammad's work yields a worthy read. * Review of Middle East Studies *
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Abbreviations
- Introduction. Townspeople, Company People, and Textiles: A Woven History
- Part One. Gendered Experiences
- Chapter 1. Competing Masculinities: Docile Workers, Aggressive Afandiyya, and the Mechanization of the Modern Subject
- Chapter 2. Urbanizing Masculinity: Workers, Weavers, and Futuwwat in Violent Alliances and Fluid Identities
- Chapter 3. Mechanizing Women: Industrial Workers or Women Adrift?
- Chapter 4. Ladies in Urban Times: Work, Property, and Gender in the Modernity of the Poor
- Part Two. Industrial Sexuality
- Chapter 5. Sexually Speaking: Unveiling the Harassment of Women, Child Molestation, Homosexuality, and Hetero-intimacy in Industrial-Urban Space
- Chapter 6. Striking and Sex-Working: Living with Tuberculosis, Syphilis, and Other Monsters
- Conclusion. The Anxiety of Transition
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
