Industrial Sexuality
| Author | : Hanan Hammad |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2016-11-29 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781477310724 |
| ISBN-13 | : 147731072X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Introduction. Townspeople, company people, and textiles : a woven history -- Pt. I. Gendered experiences -- 1. Competing masculinities : docile workers, aggressive afandiyya, and the mechanization of the modern subject -- 2. Urbanizing masculinity : workers, weavers, and futuwwat in violent alliances and fluid identities -- 3. Mechanizing women : industrial workers or women adrift? -- 4. Ladies in urban times : work, property, and gender in the modernity of the poor -- Pt. II. Industrial sexuality -- 5. Sexually speaking : unveiling the harassment of women, child molestation, homosexuality, and hetero-intimacy in industrial-urban space -- 6. Striking and sex-working : living with tuberculosis, syphilis, and other monsters -- Conclusion. The anxiety of transition
