Policing Egyptian Women

Policing Egyptian Women delineates the intricate manner in which the modern state in Egypt monitored, controlled, and "e;policed"e; 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.