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Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Between the Transnational, the International, and the Colonial -- Periodization and Sources -- Chapter Outline -- Chapter 1 The Advisory Committee on Traffic in Women -- From "White Slavery" to "Traffic in Women" -- The League of Nations -- The Foundation of the CTW and its Traveling Committees -- Changing Methodologies, Changing Agendas, 1933 to 1939 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Regulating Bodies, Regulating Spaces -- Regulation of Prostitution -- Between the Precolonial and the Colonial -- Casablanca -- Beirut -- Haifa -- Tunis: An Unaccomplished Plan -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Mapping Mobility -- Why: Mobility of Men -- Where: Routes and Hubs -- Who: Procurers, Brothel Keepers, and Prostitutes -- How: Outsmarting the Law -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Medical Outlook on Regulation -- A Paradigmatic Shift -- French Doctors, North African Patients -- The Egyptian Case: A Self-Reforming Project -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Abolitionism -- British-Egyptian Abolitionism -- British Activists in Egypt -- French-Lebanese Abolitionism -- International Abolitionism -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archives -- Periodicals -- Books and Articles -- Index

Middle East gender studies is a lively and fascinating field. With two very different journals (HawwaandJournal of Middle East Women Studies) and dozens of panels at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference and the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, we have come a long way over the last two decades. Women's, queer, and masculinity studies are now part of how we understand gender studies in the region. Middle East gender studies does, however, remain marginal in two fields—Middle East studiesandgender studies. It is normally assigned to the end of a Middle East studies conference ("and gender"), or, conversely, to the end of a gender studies conference or edited volume ("and elsewhere"). But can a discussion of technology or World War I in the modern Middle East weave in insights gained from gender or queer studies? And can a discussion of women's movements or women's labor incorporate what we know about the Middle East? I believe that more can be done to mainstream gender in Middle East studies, and to mainstream the Middle East in gender studies. Transnational history is a particularly promising direction for this endeavor.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, British and Egyptian officials, medical doctors, and the Egyptian press reiterated that country was plagued by "white drugs": cocaine and heroin. Kozma's article demonstrates how, in addition to presenting drug consumption as a social problem, discourse on the topic voiced social concerns about class, gender, colonialism, and social change. It explores both medical and popular discourses of drug consumption, focusing on notions of nation, gender, and class. Kozma's article thus examines how a global phenomenon, namely the increased consumption of and trade in drugs and the attempt to curb the former, was experienced and represented in the Egyptian local case.

In late 1931, German sexologist and gay-rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld, quoted above, visited Palestine for a lecture tour that attracted hundreds in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, and kibbutz Beit Alfa. By this time, the Jewish settlers' community (or Yishuv) in Mandate Palestine had already been exposed to the science of sexology and to the reform movement it inspired. Sexual-hygiene manuals had been translated into Hebrew and Yiddish in both Tel Aviv and Warsaw. Hebrew readers had access, for example, to translations of Auguste Forel'sSexual Ethicsand Max Hodann'sA Boy and a Girl. Finally, in the fall and winter of 1931–32, three sex consultation centers were opened in Tel Aviv.