Inventing home : emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 / Akram Fouad Khater.

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Khater, Akram Fouad, 1960-

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TextSeries: Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access)Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520935686
0520935683
0585389160
9780585389165
9780520227392
0520227395
0520227409
9780520227408
1597346845
9781597346849

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inventing home.DDC classification:

305.5/965692/09034 21

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JV8748 .K53 2001eb

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15.75

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Contents:

A Departure from the Ordinary -- Factory Girls -- Emigration -- The Mahjar -- Back to the Mountain -- A Woman's Boundaries.

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Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Departure from the Ordinary -- Factory Girls -- Emigration -- The Mahjar -- Back to the Mountain -- A Woman's Boundaries.

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.

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