Colonial citizens: republican rights, paternal privilege, and gender in French Syria and Lebanon

I. War and the Advent of French Rule: A Crisis of Paternity1. World War I: Famine, Memory, and a Shattered Social Order2. Soldiers and Patriarchs: Pillars of Colonial Paternalism3. Bureaucrats: Mother France's Civilizing MissionII. Paternal Republicanism and the Construction of Subaltern Citizens4. State Social Policy: Constructing a Hierarchy of Citizens5. Revolt: The Rise of Subaltern MovementsIII. Gender and the Legal Boundaries of the Colonial Civic Order6. Political Rights: Women's Suffrage as a Revolutionary Threat7. The Veil and the Dual Legal System8. Civil Rights: Patriotic Motherhood and Religious Law Reform9. Social Rights: Emergence of a Colonial Welfare StateIV. Gendering The Public: Spatial Boundaries Of The Colonial Civic Order10. Remapping the Urban Landscape11. Street Violence: Regendering an Old Urban Space12. Cinemas: Gendering a New Urban Space13. The Press: Gendering the Virtual PublicV. World War II and the Transformation of the Colonial Civic Order14. Climax of the Colonial Welfare State15. Claiming Paternity of Independent Republics16. The Making of Postcolonial Citizens