Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women's Liberation

In this book, author Claire Oueslati-Porter describes her field research  in Binzart, Tunisia''s sprawling factory zone and in the surrounding city. She blends conventional ethnography with auto-ethnography, leading readers inside a textile factory, among the women and men workers who navigate intensely gendered labor. While there is pressure to adhere to gendered codes of behavior in the factory,...