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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In this book, author Claire Oueslati-Porter describes her field research in Binzart, Tunisia's sprawling factory zone and in the surrounding city. She blends conventional ethnography with auto-ethnography, leading readers inside a textile factory, among the women and men workers who navigate intensely gendered labor. While there is pressure to adhere to gendered codes of behavior in the factory, some women engage in subversive gender performances. Oueslati-Porter elucidates a phenomenon that is oft-neglected in studies of women in the Middle East and North Africa: gender-queerness. Further, Oueslati-Porter explores her own perceptions of being a researcher while also being a daughter-in-law in a Tunisian family, and a mother to a toddler-aged son while conducting field work. This ethnography centralizes women's waged and unwaged labor in the understanding of women’s rights
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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