 | Militant Women of a Fragile Nation Subjects: Women''s rights; Women in the labor movement; Working class women; Tobacco workers; Tobacco industry; Women tobacco workers; Women tobacco workers; 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. |
