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Kozma, Liat.

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Women on the margins and legal reform in late nineteenth-century Egypt, 1850--1882.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Women on the margins and legal reform in late nineteenth-century Egypt, 1850--1882./
Author:	Kozma, Liat.
Description:	255 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Khaled Fahmy.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-06A.
Subject:	History, Middle Eastern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3221967
ISBN:	9780542752223

Women on the margins and legal reform in late nineteenth-century Egypt, 1850--1882.
Kozma, Liat.

Women on the margins and legal reform in late nineteenth-century Egypt, 1850--1882. - 255 p.

Adviser: Khaled Fahmy.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2006.

This dissertation examines hegemonic notions of respectability, family and honor in pre-colonial Egypt by looking at the outsiders, that is, those women and girls who violated these norms or were excluded from the normative family. It historicizes norms of respectability by looking at a specific historical moment, the three decades preceding the British occupation of Egypt, which was a period of major institutional, economic and social transformations. In doing so, it seeks to understand how these transformations changed official and social handling of the social margins, as well as women's experiences of marginality.

ISBN: 9780542752223Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017544
History, Middle Eastern.

Women on the margins and legal reform in late nineteenth-century Egypt, 1850--1882.
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520 $a This dissertation utilizes records of Egyptian police stations, the new legal system, the shari'a court system, official decrees and medical manuals. It first examines state reform of the legal and medical system, and then their impact on three groups of women, who transgressed socially constructed boundaries of respectability or were excluded from them. The groups examined include manumitted slaves, prostitutes and young women and girls who lost their virginity before marriage. This dissertation argues that since the marginality and normativity, the social center and periphery, are mutually constitutive, the existence of such gendered social boundary markers helped perpetuate the supervision and control of all women. It is my argument that the new legal institutions incorporated popular and Islamic understandings of illicit sex, honor and respectability in its everyday handling of crime. Similarly, new perceptions of the female body, its examination and its treatment, coexisted and competed with other popular perceptions and practices. New state mechanisms, institutions and conceptualizations, moreover, transformed non-elite understandings of justice, medicine, and the social margins. Such interaction, I argue, was possible exactly because state reforms were rooted in indigenous norms and in Islamic and customary law, rather than imposed by an external colonial power, as came to be the case after the 1882 British occupation of Egypt.
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