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

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Contents
Note on Translation
Introduction: Seeing Women's Work
1Childrearing as Civilization
2Childrearing as Social Theory
3Childrearing as Embodied Labor
4Childrearing as Liberation
5Childrearing as Anticolonial Temporality
6Childrearing as Democracy's Foundation
Conclusion: Feminizing Reproductive Labor
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Women-Edited Arabic Periodicals, 1892–1939
Notes
Bibliography
Index