{"product_id":"policing-egyptian-women-sex-law-and-medicine-in-khedival-egypt-9780815632818","title":"Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedival Egypt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolicing Egyptian Women\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKozma makes use of extensive archival material to chronicle the everyday interactions of nonelite women at the police station and in the courts. From honor killings to child marriages to female slavery, Kozma presents an in-depth depiction of women's experiences in Khedival Egypt. In an era when women and blacks were thought uneducable, Kozma shows that Egypt was training black women in what was then modern medicine. Known as hakimas, these female doctors played an important role in transforming how women were treated in the court system. Illustrating the ways in which the practices of the modern state gave rise to modern subjectivities, Kozma demonstrates how subaltern women experienced and helped shape nineteenth-century modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Liat Kozma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.37h x 6.29w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815632818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2011 pg. 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiat Kozma\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eJournal of North African Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40191903039603,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_21e99608-86f2-4c7a-b6a6-6333bd6a94f5.jpg?v=1655906877","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/policing-egyptian-women-sex-law-and-medicine-in-khedival-egypt-9780815632818","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}