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Author Obeid, Michelle

Title Border Lives
Published Boston : BRILL, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (196 pages)
Series Women and Gender: the Middle East and the Islamic World Ser
Women and Gender: the Middle East and the Islamic World Ser
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Figures; Notes on Names and Transliteration; Chapter 1 Introduction: Border Lives in Changing Times; 1 Figuring Out Border Lives; 2 Remoteness and Marginality at the Border; 3 The Ambivalence of Two States; 4 Rural Modernities; Chapter 2 Sociality between Movement and Space; 1 New Capacities for Sociality; 2 The Workings of ʿIshra; 3 Domestic Spaces, Gender and Consumption; 3.1 House Interiors; 3.2 Gendered Sociality; Chapter 3 Living Well: Experiments in Livelihoods; 1 Livelihoods as an Ongoing Experiment; 2 Livelihoods in the Shadow of an 'Evil State'
3 Contested Moral Economies3.1 Living Well through Traditional Livelihoods; 3.2 Quarrying: Prosperity or Sentence to Hard Labour?; Chapter 4 Pastoralists: Living the Past in the Present; 1 Transhumance and Political Change; 2 Spatial and Human Organisation; 4 Conflicts of Interest; 5 Envying 'the Comfortable Woman'; Chapter 5 Marriage between Love and Fate; 1 The Befalling of Nasīb; 2 The Vocabulary of Modern Marriage; 2.1 Love and Desire; 2.2 Partnership and Understanding; 3 Intergenerational Negotiations; 3.1 Zuhayr and Rima; 3.2 Zuhayr's Daughters; 4 When Negotiation Fails
Chapter 6 Suspicion and Scorpions: The Morality of Kinship1 Ensnaring Brothers and Suspicious Sisters; 1.1 Female Altruism; 1.2 God Did Not Say 'Live Alone'; 1.3 Cinderella -- But without the Prince; 2 Of Failed Bargains; 2.1 It is All the Mother's Fault; 3 The Morality of Kinship; Chapter 7 Local Elections: Politics at the Margin; 1 1963: Familism, a Divisive Force; 2 1998: ʿĀʼila Redeemed; 3 Familism Strikes Back; 4 Corruption that Compromises National Pride; 5 The 2004 Lists: 'Old Wine, New Bottles?'; 6 New Council, New Directions; Chapter 8 What the Future Hides
1 A Visit in Post-Syrian Time2 Is it Possible to Move Backwards?; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Women -- Lebanon -- Arsal -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Women -- Social conditions
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004394346
9004394346