Policing Egyptian women
Subtitle: sex, law, and medicine in Khedival Egypt
By: Liat Kozma
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Gender and globalization; Gender and globalization
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780815632818
Subjects: Social conditions; Social life and customs; Women; Honor killings; History
Description: "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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Egyptian legal reform; title: Medicine, law, and the female body; title: Female slaves, manumission, and abolition; title: Prostitutes and other women of ill repute; title: Virginity, honor, and premarital defloration.