| Militant Women of a Fragile Nation Subjects: Women tobacco workers -- Lebanon -- Social conditions; Women tobacco workers -- Political activity -- Lebanon -- History; Tobacco industry -- Lebanon -- History; Tobacco workers -- Labor unions -- Lebanon -- History; Working class women -- Lebanon -- Soci; In Militant Women of a Fragile Nation, Malek Abisaab takes a gendered approach to labor conflicts, anticolonial struggles, and citizenship in modern Lebanon. The author traces the conditions and experiences of women workers at the French Tobacco Monopoly. Malek Abisaab is assistant professor of history at McGill University. He has published numerous articles on the subject of gender and the Middle East. |