Author : Claire Oueslati-Porter
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030241041
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Book Synopsis Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women’s Liberation by : Claire Oueslati-Porter
Download or read book Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women’s Liberation written by Claire Oueslati-Porter and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-14 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.