Women and Gender in a Lebanese Village : Generations of Change /
In Women and Gender in a Lebanese Village: Generations of Change , Nancy W. Jabbra addresses change in women's and gender roles in a village in Lebanon's Bekaa valley. Employing ethnographic methods and secondary sources, she explores that change from the post-World War II period to the ea...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
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Leiden; Boston :
BRILL,
2021.
Series:
Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World ;
19.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441286.
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Call Number: B63
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Al-Firzul in Context
- 1 Before the Nineteenth Century
- 2 The Nineteenth Century to the End of World War I
- 3 Post World War I to World War II
- 4 World War II
- 5 The Post-World War II Period
- 6 The Village during the 1970s
- 7 The Civil War
- 8 After the Civil War: The 1990s
- 9 The 2000s
- 10 Conclusion
- 3 Women, Gender, and Families
- 1 Kinship and Residence
- 2 Views about Marriage
- 3 Finding a Spouse
- 4 Age at Marriage
- 5 Family Structure and Size
- 6 Conclusion
- 4 Women, Education, and Work
- 1 Education
- 2 Work
- 3 Summary and Conclusion
- 5 Gender and Community
- 1 Kinship
- 2 Organizations
- 3 Governance and Institutions
- 4 The Internet
- 5 Summary and Conclusion
- 6 Gender Symbolism in Ritual
- 1 Origins of First Communion in al-Firzul
- 2 First Communion in 1973
- 3 Post-Civil War First Communion Observance
- 4 Weddings in 1972-1973
- 5 Weddings Post-Civil War
- 6 Funerals in the 1970s
- 7 Funerals Post-Civil War
- 8 Women's Practice of Vernacular Religion: Subverting the Gender Hierarchy
- 9 Conclusion
- 7 Conclusion
- 1 Summary
- 2 Some Portraits: A Glimpse of the Future?
- References.