Wandering About as She Pleases: Prostitutes, Adolescent Girls, and Female Slaves in Cairo’s Public Space, 1850–1882

Kozma, Liat

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“…In 1834 Muhammad Ali decided to ban prostitution then he banished prostitutes to upper Egypt (Hammad & Biancani, 2017). It was common since then that the people who engage in prostitution get arrested or flogged (Kozma, 2012). Cot bey did not only condemn prostitution for health reasons only as historian Khaled Fahmy argued.…”

Section: Stop the Prostitutes! Diseasing The Female Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It was Muhammad Ali who banned public dancing as a part of combating prostitution (Roushdy, 2008). In Khedival Egypt the state was making sure that public order is maintained by purifying respectable neighbourhoods from prostitutes (Kozma, 2012). Then the colonial administration was keen on keeping public morality (Fonder, 2013).…”

Section: Public Morality and Marriagementioning

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“…The nation needs heathy bodies (Kholoussy, 2010a). In the 1890s the police arrested girls who were suspected of having pre-marital sex (Kozma, 2012). In the early 20 th century, the courts were prosecuting men and women charged with adultery (Hammad, 2016).…”

Section: Public Morality and Marriagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Qasim Amin internalised this discourse and criticised the lazy Egyptian (Mazid, 2002). In practical terms the state in 1880 issued a law that allows the policing of people who wander as they please without work or home (Kozma, 2012). If they are men, they are regarded as a threat to public order, if they are women they are believed to have engaged in premarital sex or potential prostitutes (Kozma, 2012).…”

Section: Stop the Laziness! The Temporal Perversionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Tarrying with the Leviathan: body and temporality in modern Egypt

Mikhail¹

2019

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This dissertation will answer what is the impact of modern state institutions (medicine, factory and communication technology) on the construction of the Egyptian body and time and how did the Egyptians react to these efforts? This dissertation argues that the Egyptian state aimed to produce docile subjectivities for the sake of efficiency through three institutions: the first is medicine which produced a healthy desexualised Egyptian body, made reproduction its main purpose and controlled the Egyptians’ intimate time; the second is the factory which controlled the behaviour of body and disciplined the Egyptians’ time (initiated by Muhammad Ali and continued later by Egyptian capitalism with the support of the state); the third is modern transportation (e.g. railroads) which standardised the time of the Egyptians and regulated their movement in space. But, by using everyday acts of quiet assertiveness, Egyptians tried to regain control over their own bodies and tarried the monotonous time.

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Section: Stop the Prostitutes! Diseasing The Female Bodymentioning

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Section: Public Morality and Marriagementioning

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Section: Public Morality and Marriagementioning

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Section: Stop the Laziness! The Temporal Perversionmentioning

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Tarrying with the Leviathan: body and temporality in modern Egypt

Mikhail¹

2019

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Eyes in the Dark

Wishnitzer¹

2017

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

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The limited scholarship on late Ottoman nightlife focused mainly on street lighting and described it as a solution to the problem of darkness, the end of a dark age. However, as Wishnitzer shows in this article, the nightlife scene of the late nineteenth century did not develop linearly from darkened to illuminated nightlife; rather, the two modes of nocturnal leisure coexisted. Likewise, the new ways of “seeing through darkness” that were devised by the state developed alongside (rather than instead of) well-established patterns of communal surveillance. These patterns are evident in contemporary novels, which subjected nightlife to a literary “neighborhood gaze,” exposing and shaming protagonists who violated public morality. In this way, novelists warned against what they perceived to be the perils of the new night and advised their readers how to navigate it—how to be in the modern night without jeopardizing the morality, productivity, and integrity of the individual and of the Ottoman nation as a whole.

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Wandering About as She Pleases: Prostitutes, Adolescent Girls, and Female Slaves in Cairo’s Public Space, 1850–1882

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Tarrying with the Leviathan: body and temporality in modern Egypt

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