Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought by Ferguson, Susanna

Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought

How to raise a child became a central concern of intellectual debate from Cairo to Beirut over...
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Author: Susanna Ferguson
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Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought by Ferguson, Susanna

Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought

$415.80

Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought

$415.80
Author: Susanna Ferguson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

How to raise a child became a central concern of intellectual debate from Cairo to Beirut over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Intimately linked with discussions around capitalism and democracy, considerations about women, gender, and childrearing emerged as essential to modern social theory. Arab writers, particularly women, made sex, the body, and women's ethical labor central to fending off European imperial advances, instituting representative politics, and managing social order.

Labors of Love traces the political power of motherhood and childrearing in Arabic thought. Susanna Ferguson reveals how debates around raising children became foundational to feminist, Islamist, and nationalist politics alike-opening up conversations about civilization, society, freedom, temporality, labor, and democracy. While these debates led to expansions in girls' education and women writers' authority, they also attached the fate of nations to women's unwaged labor in the home. Ferguson thus reveals why women and the family have been stumbling blocks for representative regimes around the world. She shows how Arab women's writing speaks to global questions-the devaluation of social reproduction under capitalism, the stubborn maleness of the liberal subject, and why the naturalization of embodied, binary gender difference has proven so difficult to overcome.



Author: Susanna Ferguson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 09/03/2024
Pages: 332
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781503640061

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