Sex Work in Colonial Egypt

Francesca Biancani is Adjunct Professor in History and Institutions of the Modern Middle East at the Department of Politics and Political Science, University of Bologna. She is also Postdoctoral Fellow at the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Middle Eastern Studies Center at the American University of Cairo and has contributed to various peer-reviewed edited books and journals. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliterations
Acronyms
Introduction- The Making of Modern Prostitution in Egypt
1 Selling Sex in a Changing City
1a Urban Transformation
1b Women and Labour
1c Migration
1d Conclusions
2 The Geography of Sex Work
2a Zoning
2b Conclusions
3- Regulating Prostitution and Counting the Population
3a Labelling
3b Counting
3c Medicalizing
3d Confinement
3e Racialization and the Colonial Order
Conclusions
4- Sex Work Beyond Prostitution
4a ‘Let down the curtains around us’: the Kharakhana
4b Disguised Prostitution, nightlife, and legal loopholes
4c Clandestine sexwork
4d Pimps
4e Subalternity, Sex Work and Agency
4f Conclusions
5- Imperial War, Venereal Disease, and Sex Work
5a Men in Town
5b The Battle of the Wass#a
5c Martial men, venereal women
5d The 1916 Purification
5e The Debate About Prophylaxis
5d Imperial Troops and Brothels
5e Conclusions
6 Policing ‘suspect’ femininities: the work of British Purity Movements in Cairo
6a The ‘Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon’ , Brief History of a Moral Panic
6b Social Purity in Egypt, the IBS Committee
6c Beyt #Arabi
6d Competing Approaches: the AMSH
6e Egyptian Feminism and the Struggle against Prostitution
6f Conclusions
7 Abolitionism and Nationalism on the Political Agenda
7a Nationalism and the Rise of an Imagined Egyptian Nation in the Press
7b Gender and Danger in Cairo
7c When Virtues Scream: the ‘Fight Against Prostitution’
7d The Making of a National Villain: Ibrahim el Gharbi
7e Bringing Abolitionism In (THE FOLLOWING SUB-SECTION IN THE PREVIOUS DRAFT HAS BEEN MOVED HERE)
7 f Paternalist Humanitarianism and the Repeal of Licensed Prostitution
7 g conclusions
CONCLUSION