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Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedival Egypt (Gender and Globalization)
Liat Kozma
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Description for Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedival Egypt (Gender and Globalization)
Hardcover. Historical treatament of slaves, prostitutes and adolescent girls in Egyptian society Series: Gender and Globalization. Num Pages: 200 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
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. Kozma makes use of extensive archival material to chronicle the everyday interactions of nonelite ... Read more
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. Kozma makes use of extensive archival material to chronicle the everyday interactions of nonelite ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Gender and Globalization
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632818
SKU
V9780815632818
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99-98
About Liat Kozma
Liat Kozma is a lecturer at the Hebrew University. Her articles and research interests focus on women and sexuality in the modern Middle East. She has published articles in the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and the Journal of North African Studies.
Reviews for Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedival Egypt (Gender and Globalization)
This book sets a new standard for studies of women, gender, and state formation in nineteenth-century Egypt, and its approach is certainly applicable to other periods. Kozma’s greatest contribution... is her clear demonstration of the significance of women at society’s ... Read more