Inventing Home - Emigration, Gender & the Middle Class in Lebanon 1870-1920

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-520-22740-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 271 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making.

Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, shedding much needed light on the impact of emigration and immigration in the development of modernity. It focuses on a critical period in the social history of Lebanon--the "long peace" between the uprising of 1860 and the beginning of the French mandate in 1920. The book explores in depth the phenomena of return emigration, the questioning and changing of gender roles, and the rise of the middle class. Exploring new areas in the history of Lebanon, Inventing Home asks how new notions of gender, family, and class were articulated and how a local "modernity" was invented in the process.

Akram Khater maps the jagged and uncertain paths that the fellahin from Mount Lebanon carved through time and space in their attempt to control their future and their destinies. His study offers a significant contribution to the literature on the Middle East, as well as a new perspective on women and on gender issues in the context of developing modernity in the region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Khater, Akram F.

Khater, Akram Fouad

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. A Departure from the Ordinary

2. Factory Girls

3. Emigration

4. The Mahjar

5. Back to the Mountain

6. A Woman’s Boundaries

7. Epilogue: The Making of a Middle Class.

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Akram Fouad Khater is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at North Carolina State University.