Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women’s Liberation
Deviating Patterns
Authors: Oueslati-Porter, Claire
Free Preview- 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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This book presents ethnographic research conducted in an export zone textile factory in Binzart, Tunisia during the years leading up to the Arab Spring. The author focuses on the sexist management tactics in the factory, as well as women workers’ patterns of resistance and capitulation to sexual objectification and exploitation. Masculinity as enacted by men and by some women is revealed as fundamental to the processes of production. Certain women workers, Oueslati-Porter shows, challenge cisgender norms by appropriating masculinity for themselves, threatening men’s masculine supremacy. Furthermore, socio-cultural surveillance mechanisms in the factory and in the family is curtail the tensions posed by the presence of masculine women.
Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women’s Liberation will be of interest to students andscholars of anthropology, sociology, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, LGBTQ+ studies,and Middle East and North Africa studies. - About the authors
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Claire Oueslati-Porter is Senior Lecturer, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Anthropology, University of Miami, USA.
- Table of contents (5 chapters)
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The Paradoxes of Tunisian Women’s Liberation
Pages 1-14
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Fieldwork and Family
Pages 15-40
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Producing Factory Femininity
Pages 41-62
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Producing Men and Masculinity in the Factory
Pages 63-79
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Female Masculinity in the Factory
Pages 81-104
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women’s Liberation
- Book Subtitle
- Deviating Patterns
- Authors
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- Claire Oueslati-Porter
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-24104-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-24104-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-24103-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 110
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations
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