Title: Policing Egyptian women : sex, law, and medicine in Khedival Egypt /
Authors: Kozma, Liat
Publisher: Syracuse University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Women Egypt Social conditions; Honor killings Egypt History.; Gender Identity; Women's Health history; Women's Health legislation & jurisprudence; Egypt Social life and customs; Egypt
Abstract: "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.