Overview
- Elucidates women’s varied strategies for contending with exploitation, from emphasized femininity to female masculinity
- Promotes new understandings of women’s and men’s place in rapidly neoliberalizing MENA economies
- Challenges oversimplified representations of Muslim women and men
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Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women’s Liberation will be of interest to students and
scholars of anthropology, sociology, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, LGBTQ+ studies,
and Middle East and North Africa studies.
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Book Title: Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women’s Liberation
Book Subtitle: Deviating Patterns
Authors: Claire Oueslati-Porter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24104-9
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24103-2Published: 26 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24104-9Published: 14 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 110
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Ethnography, Sociology of Work, Feminist Anthropology