...A. Holly Shissler This paper discusses the views of Turkish journalist Sabiha Zekeriya Sertel (1895–1968) on prostitution and women’s participation in the paid labor force. By examining her ideas on these issues and on women’s legal rights as they appeared in her journal, Resimli Ay, the paper...

... of interwar prostitution traverses and transcends national and colonial boundaries to reveal a Mediterranean regional system linking Casablanca, Marseille, Tunis, Istanbul, Cairo, Beirut, Haifa, and Port Said. This book is a welcome contribution to scholars in multiple disciplines and subfields, including...

...Haytham Bahoora Abstract In the Iraqi literary production of the 1940s and 1950s, the figure of the woman prostitute appeared repeatedly, signaling a crisis in the ways Iraqi men imagined and articulated the contours of women’s liberation. Through an examination of works by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra...

... in the French Mandate escaped being prostitutionalized and thus retained control of material and moral resources denied to women defined as prostitutes. Artiste was strategically deployed by women to rupture the binary oppositions of the imported French system of regulated prostitution, which distinguished...

...Maryam Zehtabi Sabeti Moqaddam Abstract In Iran—as never before in the history of the country—prostitutes gained notorious visibility in twentieth-century Persian literature. Fixation on the image of the prostitute created a wealth of literature beginning in 1924 with the first Persian urban social...

...Ginger Feather Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 A single mother does not necessarily mean that a woman is working as a prostitute. Yet, Morocco equates a single mother to the corruption of public morals and prostitution. —Single-mother beneficiary...

... the gendered and racial underpinnings of white-slavery discourse in Egypt and elsewhere, wherein “native prostitutes” appeared inherently and willingly loose while “European” ones were naive victims of a corrupt system (Biancani 2018 : 66–67; Kozma 2017a : 9–10; Levine 2002 ). The story of a non-European...

... discourses on migration, trafficking, and prostitution in the Gulf countries. Pardis Mahdavi is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College. Her research interests include gendered labor, migration, sexuality, human rights, youth culture, transnational feminism and public health...

...Hanan Hammad Abstract Court records, police reports, and security statistics indicate that theft was the most frequent crime committed by imprisoned Egyptian women in the interwar period, although scholarship has largely focused on their involvement in prostitution. Theft by women was typically...

... patterns and family forms, combating prostitution, eliminating women’s traditional head coverings, and reining in what the AIU saw as men’s promiscuity and homosexual tendencies. Ultimately, the AIU helped further estrange Moroccan Jews from Muslims but failed to secure Moroccan Jews’ smooth integration...

... and Prostitution in Constantinople, 1854–1922 . Istanbul : Isis . Balsoy Gülhan . 2013 . The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838–1900 . London : Pickering and Chatto . Beşikçi Mehmet . 2014 . “ Mobilizing Military Labor in the Age of Total War: Ottoman Conscription before...

... extrapolates fundamental shifts in the epistemology of gender, conceptions about sexual desire, and debates concerning homosexuality and prostitution, providing a nuanced overview of the evolution of Sunni jurisprudence, the integration of biomedical practices, and the formation of the modern Egyptian state...

... and practical management of a rapidly changing, modernizing society. PROSTITUTES AND OTHER VICTIMS: THE CRITIQUE OF MODERN LIFE’S DEBILITATING EFFECTS ON WOMEN Although a critique of modern eff ects, focused on its debilitating eff ects on women, picked up steam in the postwar decades, its...

... University In “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo, Elyse Semerdjian looks at “moral deviancy” (xxiii) in this Syr- ian town in the early modern period. Framing her enquiry of zina, or “illicit sex,” broadly understood to include prostitution and rape as well...

... harassment cases, Hammad finds that charged men were usually working class, illustrating the state’s surveillance of their masculinity. She refutes the argument that street sexual harassment was an expression of sexual frustration by men who could not afford prostitution or marriage, showing that both...

.... They are “rejected merchandise” and “defective” (134), since fathers give their daughters to other men; men share prostitutes, participate in gang rapes, and endorse and/or engage in polygamy; and overall the institution of repudiation allows women to “purchase their freedom from their husbands” (147). Finally...

... me that bans and taboos affect who is involved in nonmarital sex and how, but not so much whether prostitution, premarital and extramarital sex, and homosexual acts exist in a given society. Illegitimate children, for example, were always part of human societies, and these always devised ways (some...

... or sex work as artistes while local women were regulated as prostitutes. However, she argues, women actively destabilized these distinctions though regional and transnational mobility. Unlike the artistes ’, the bodies of registered prostitutes were constructed as sites of moral and medical infection...

... a prostitute. She is like Han Yuerong, the heroine of Lao She’s short story “Yue Yar” or Crescent Moon (1935), who had despised her twice-widowed mother for resorting to the most shameful of trades, and then had to take a bite of the bitter reality. And there is also Hamida’s literary cousin Firdaws...

... the field of opportunities. Furthermore, due to the flexible and illicit character of these practices, the beznessa are unable to seek something like a carte officielle that is in place for the femmes de nuit (literally “women of the night,” prostitutes) or the authorization to pro- vide...