Biancani Francesca, Sex Work in Colonial Egypt: Women, Modernity and the Global Economy
The absence of licensed brothels in today’s Cairo is haunted by the stories presented in Francesca Biancani’s monograph. Through an extensive archival work supported by an anthropological eye, she investigates a currently invisible phenomenon that was once a subject of many legal debates and disput...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ema, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Égypte/Monde arabe
2021
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | The absence of licensed brothels in today’s Cairo is haunted by the stories presented in Francesca Biancani’s monograph. Through an extensive archival work supported by an anthropological eye, she investigates a currently invisible phenomenon that was once a subject of many legal debates and disputes among different political, economic, social, and religious forces- colonial, foreign, and national ones alike. Using pictures, songs, and novels that describe these times as well, the book highl... |
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