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

Edition 1st ed Published Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 174 pages) : illustrations Series Gender and globalization Gender and globalization. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Women -- Egypt -- Social conditions -- 19th century Honor killings -- Egypt -- History Women's Rights -- history Sexism -- history Enslavement -- history Enslavement -- legislation & jurisprudence History, 19th Century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt. Honor killings Manners and customs Women -- Social conditions SUBJECT Egypt -- Social life and customs -- 19th century Egypt Subject Egypt Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780815651345 0815651341

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