Policing Egyptian women : sex, law, and medicine in Khedival Egypt / Liat Kozma.

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.

xxvii, 174 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

1st ed.

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.