Kozma, Liat.

Policing Egyptian women sex, law, and medicine in Khedival Egypt / [electronic resource] : Liat Kozma. - 1st ed. - Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011. - xxvii, 174 p. : ill. - Gender and globalization . - Gender and globalization. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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2013.
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Women--Social conditions--Egypt--19th century.
Honor killings--History.--Egypt


Egypt--Social life and customs--19th century.


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