...Jonathan Wyrtzen Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East . Liat Kozma . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2017 . 250 pages. isbn 139781438462615. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Liat...

...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...

...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...

... out-of-wedlock affair, meanderings, and efforts to make a living both in and out of prostitution are threads of the shared history of many other migrant female workers trekking through the Mediterranean around this time (Carminati forthcoming ). 3 What befell her in 1920, however, stands out...

... women performers who could claim foreignness and therefore artiste status 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...-order brides is akin to prostitution. Of course, she also contends that all traditional patriarchal marriages contain elements of prostitution, de ned as allowing sexual access in return for subsistence, at their heart (Jeffreys 2008: 44). But the resemblance between marriage and prostitution becomes...

... banned from school curricula but also banished from discussion in many homes. Instead, boys learn about sex and gender relations “on the streets, with playmates and classmates, and often in the context of prostitution” (28), with the recent addition of pornography. In contrast, girls learn about sex...

... counseling. The most impressive for me was reading about Tunisian women who teach fellow male university students how to use condoms and those who provide assistance for street prostitutes and free HIV testing and prophylactics. Talking about the Arab Spring, she also discusses gang rapes in Tahrir...

... 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...

... demoted to resemble women, or the underprivileged. There are also cases of the latter being promoted to resemble the former, as long as some factors, such as class, are in play. Moreover, these two processes of demotion and promotion sometimes concur. When Hamida the prostitute receives the rich man she...