Table of Contents for Labors of Love

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

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Introduction: Seeing Women's Work

1.Childrearing as Civilization

2.Childrearing as Social Theory

3.Childrearing as Embodied Labor

4.Childrearing as Liberation

5.Childrearing as Anticolonial Temporality

6.Childrearing as Democracy's Foundation

Conclusion: Feminizing Reproductive Labor

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Women-Edited Arabic Periodicals, 1892–1939

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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