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Francesca Biancani
Bologna University
Occupation
Adjunct Professor
Contact
Strada Maggiore 45
Bologna 40125
Italy
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Gender/Women's Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Mashreq
Specialties
Stds On Marginality
Subaltern Stds
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Hebrew (elementary)
Abstracts
Social Purity, Feminism and Prostitution in Cairo, 1920-1939 Female Migration from Italy to Egypt in the 19th and 20th Centuries: The Case of the Aleksandrinke The "Maiden Tribute of Modern Egypt": White Slavery as a Racialized Narrative of Imperial Crisis in Early Twentieth-Century Colonial Egypt