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3 décembre 2021
- doi: 10.4000/ema.14814
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Mina Ibrahim, « Biancani Francesca, Sex Work in Colonial Egypt: Women, Modernity and the Global Economy », Égypte/Monde arabe, ID : 10.4000/ema.14814
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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 highli...