ISBN:
9789004394346
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (196 pages)
Series Statement:
Women and Gender: the Middle East and the Islamic World Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.095692
Keywords:
Arsal (Lebanon)-Social conditions-20th century
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Women-Lebanon-Arsal-Social conditions-20th century
;
Arsal (Lebanon)-Social conditions-20th century.
;
Women-Lebanon-Arsal-Social conditions-20th century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Notes on Names and Transliteration -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Border Lives in Changing Times -- 1 Figuring Out Border Lives -- 2 Remoteness and Marginality at the Border -- 3 The Ambivalence of Two States -- 4 Rural Modernities -- Chapter 2 Sociality between Movement and Space -- 1 New Capacities for Sociality -- 2 The Workings of ʿIshra -- 3 Domestic Spaces, Gender and Consumption -- 3.1 House Interiors -- 3.2 Gendered Sociality -- Chapter 3 Living Well: Experiments in Livelihoods -- 1 Livelihoods as an Ongoing Experiment -- 2 Livelihoods in the Shadow of an 'Evil State' -- 3 Contested Moral Economies -- 3.1 Living Well through Traditional Livelihoods -- 3.2 Quarrying: Prosperity or Sentence to Hard Labour? -- Chapter 4 Pastoralists: Living the Past in the Present -- 1 Transhumance and Political Change -- 2 Spatial and Human Organisation -- 4 Conflicts of Interest -- 5 Envying 'the Comfortable Woman' -- Chapter 5 Marriage between Love and Fate -- 1 The Befalling of Nasīb -- 2 The Vocabulary of Modern Marriage -- 2.1 Love and Desire -- 2.2 Partnership and Understanding -- 3 Intergenerational Negotiations -- 3.1 Zuhayr and Rima -- 3.2 Zuhayr's Daughters -- 4 When Negotiation Fails -- Chapter 6 Suspicion and Scorpions: The Morality of Kinship -- 1 Ensnaring Brothers and Suspicious Sisters -- 1.1 Female Altruism -- 1.2 God Did Not Say 'Live Alone' -- 1.3 Cinderella - But without the Prince -- 2 Of Failed Bargains -- 2.1 It is All the Mother's Fault -- 3 The Morality of Kinship -- Chapter 7 Local Elections: Politics at the Margin -- 1 1963: Familism, a Divisive Force -- 2 1998: ʿĀʾila Redeemed -- 3 Familism Strikes Back -- 4 Corruption that Compromises National Pride -- 5 The 2004 Lists: 'Old Wine, New Bottles?' -- 6 New Council, New Directions -- Chapter 8 What the Future Hides.
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