CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. NOTE ON TRANSLATION ix
4. Introduction. Seeing Women’s Work 1
5. One Childrearing as Civilization 25
6. Two Childrearing as Social Theory 56
7. Three Childrearing as Embodied Labor 87
8. Four Childrearing as Liberation 114
9. Five Childrearing as Anticolonial Temporality 141
10. Six Childrearing as Democracy’s Foundation 169
11. Conclusion Feminizing Reproductive Labor 202
12. Acknowledgments 217
13. Appendix: Women-Edited Arabic Periodicals, 1892–1939 221
14. Notes 225
15. Bibliography 283
16. Index 309