Policing Egyptian Women:

Liat Kozma

Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedival Egypt - Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2011 - xxvii, 174 p., ill.; 24 cm - 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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Women--Social conditions--Egypt--19th century
Honor killings--History--Egypt


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