Chapter 1. Women, Medicine, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

Fahmy, Khaled

doi:10.1515/9781400831203-004

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“…It was not rare that an escaped maid was found raped and “deflowered” a couple of days later. Several cases from the 1860s and 1870s in Egypt follow a general pattern: girls escaping from their place of work were frequently found being raped (Fahmy, 1998).…”

Section: Foster‐daughters' Strategies Of Taking Agencymentioning

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Foster‐Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in the Late Ottoman Empire*

Maksudyan¹

2008

J Historical Sociology

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This paper addresses the complex and contradictory framing of youthful female sexuality, personified in the figure of foster-daughters (beslemes), in the nineteenth century Ottoman Empire. Beslemes were both sexually exploited and attempted to be disciplined under the critical gaze of the upper classes and the state, since they disturbed the accepted rules and limits of sexual agency as sexually active unwed adolescent girls. They were marginalized as indecent and fallen girls, since sexual agency and chastity were considered to be incompatible. Though acknowledging the subordination of foster-daughters, this paper suggests that these young women were not completely subjected, silenced and helpless and that they were able to find ways of taking the initiative in resistive strategies.

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Section: Foster‐daughters' Strategies Of Taking Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Foster‐Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in the Late Ottoman Empire*

Maksudyan¹

2008

J Historical Sociology

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“…The early missionaries seem to have been largely unaware of the existing forms of female education in the Middle East, such as the kuttabs where Muslim boys and girls learned the Koran, some schools in the Christian communities, as well as some government-sponsored schools in Egypt (see Tucker 1999: 82-3). On the rather ambiguous aims and results of the Egyptian governmental "School of Midwives," established in 1832, see Fahmy (1998). On Constantinople, see Merguerian (1990-1: 107) 6.…”

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Gender, religion and change in the Middle East: two hundred years of history

Okkenhaug¹,

Flaskerud²

2006

Choice Reviews Online

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“…We must note here that this is not an across-the-board stance as women's use of the male-controlled health system may be governed by pragmatism (Lock and Kaufert, 1998). Fahmy's (1998) example of Egypt is illustrative of the broader political context. Her research shows that the School of Midwives established by Mehmed Ali Pasha in the 19th century was ostensibly meant to 'liberate' women.…”

Section: Scene Two: the World My Mother Gave Mementioning

confidence: 99%