Policing Egyptian Women

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Policing Egyptian Women is written by Liat Kozma and published by Syracuse University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0815651341 (ISBN 10) and 9780815651345 (ISBN 13).

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.