Colonial Citizens Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon

Name: Colonial Citizens Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon
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ISBN: 9780231106610

ISBN-10: 0231106610

ISBN-13: 9780231106610

Edition: 2000

Authors: Elizabeth Thompson

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The period of French rule in Syria and Lebanon established the political, economic and social structures that would define their independent states for decades. This study highlights the role of gender in the social development of these countries.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/24/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.02" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration


Abbreviations


Chronology


Map of Syria and Lebanon in the Mandate Era


Introduction



War and the Advent of French Rule: A Crisis of Paternity



World War I: Famine, Memory, and a Shattered Social Order



Soldiers and Patriarchs: Pillars of Colonial Paternalism



Bureaucrats: Mother France's Civilizing Mission



Paternal Republicanism and the Construction of Subaltern Citizens



State Social Policy: Constructing a Hierarchy of Citizens



Revolt: The Rise of Subaltern Movements



Gender and the Legal Boundaries of the Colonial Civic Order



Political Rights: Women's Suffrage as a Revolutionary Threat



The Veil and the Dual Legal System



Civil Rights: Patriotic Motherhood and Religious Law Reform



Social Rights: Emergence of a Colonial Welfare State



Gendering the Public: Spatial Boundaries of the Colonial Civic Order



Remapping the Urban Landscape



Street Violence: Regendering an Old Urban Space



Cinemas: Gendering a New Urban Space



The Press: Gendering the Virtual Public



World War II and the Transformation of the Colonial Civic Order



Climax of the Colonial Welfare State



Claiming Paternity of Independent Republics



The Making of Postcolonial Citizens


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index