CIAO DATE: 09/02

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

Elizabeth Thompson

Columbia University Press

December 1999

 

Table of Contents

Front Matter and Acknowledgments (PDF format, 10 pages, 60 kbs)

Note on Transliteration (PDF format, 2 pages, 32 kbs)

Abbreviations (PDF format, 2 pages, 40 kbs)

Chronology (PDF format, 4 pages, 40 kbs)

Map of Syria and Lebanon in the Mandate Era (PDF format, 1 pg, 232 kbs)

Introduction (PDF format, 13 pages, 72 kbs)

Part I – War and the Advent of French Rule: A Crisis of Paternity (PDF format, 4 pages, 32 kbs)

1. World War I: Famine, Memory, and a Shattered Social Order (PDF format, 20 pages, 108 kbs)

2. Soldiers and Patriarchs: Pillars of Colonial Paternalism (PDF format, 19 pages, 100 kbs)

3. Bureaucrats: Mother France’s Civilizing Mission (PDF format, 13 pages, 76 kbs)

Part II – Paternal Republicanism and the Construction of Subaltern Citizens (PDF format, 2 pages, 28 kbs)

4. State Social Policy: Constructing a Hierarchy of Citizens (PDF format, 18 pages, 100 kbs)

5. Revolt: The Rise of Subaltern Movements (PDF format, 22 pages, 112 kbs)

Part III – Gender and the Legal Boundaries of the Colonial Civic Order (PDF format, 4 pages, 32 kbs)

6. Political Rights: Women’s Suffrage as a Revolutionary Threat (PDF format, 10 pages, 68 kbs)

7. The Veil and the Dual Legal System (PDF format, 14 pages, 80 kbs)

8. Civil Rights: Patriotic Motherhood and Religious Law Reform (PDF format, 14 pages, 84 kbs)

9. Social Rights: Emergence of a Colonial Welfare State (PDF format, 16 pages, 92 kbs)

Part IV – Gendering the Public: Spatial Boundaries of the Colonial Civic Order (PDF format, 4 pages, 40 kbs)

10. Remapping the Urban Landscape (PDF format, 9 pages, 60 kbs)

11. Street Violence: Regendering an Old Urban Space (PDF format, 13 pages, 80 kbs)

12. Cinemas: Gendering a New Urban Space (PDF format, 14 pages, 84 kbs)

13. The Press: Gendering the Virtual Public (PDF format, 14 pages, 88 kbs)

Part V – World War II and the Transformation of the Colonial Civic Order (PDF format, 3 pages, 32 kbs)

14. Climax of the Colonial Welfare State (PDF format, 18 pages, 100 kbs)

15. Claiming Paternity of Independent Republics (PDF format, 24 pages, 120 kbs)

16. The Making of Postcolonial Citizens (PDF format, 20 pages, 104 kbs)

Appendix (PDF format, 20 pages, 104 kbs)

Notes (PDF format, 20 pages, 104 kbs)

Bibliography (PDF format, 20 pages, 104 kbs)

Index (PDF format, 20 pages, 104 kbs)

Illustrations (PDF format, 16 pages, 10.4 Mb)