Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedival Egypt

by Liat Kozma

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815632819
• ISBN13: 9780815632818
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"