Policing Egyptian women : sex, law, and medicine in Khedival Egypt / Liat Kozma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kozma, Liat.

Series:

Gender and globalization.

Gender and globalization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Egypt--Social conditions--19th century.

Women.

Honor killings--Egypt--History.

Honor killings.

Egypt--Social life and customs--19th century.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Policing Egyptian Women delineates the intricate manner in which the modern state in Egypt monitored, controlled, and "policed" the bodies of subaltern women. Some of these women were runaway slaves, others were deflowered outside of marriage, and still others were prostitutes. Kozma traces the effects of nineteenth-century developments such as the expansion of cities, the abolition of the slave trade, the formation of a new legal system, and the development of a new forensic medical expertise on these women who lived at the margins of society.

Contents:

Egyptian legal reform

Medicine, law, and the female body

Female slaves, manumission, and abolition

Prostitutes and other women of ill repute

Virginity, honor, and premarital defloration.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815651345

0815651341

OCLC:

785782991