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Codes of misconduct : regulating prostitution in late colonial Bombay /
Across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, legislators in Bombay passed a series of repetitive laws seeking to control prostitution. During the same time, Bombay's sex industry grew vast in scale. Ashwini Tambe explores why these remarkably similar laws failed to achieve their goal and ques...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: prostitution and the law in Bombay
- The colonial state, law, and sexuality
- A failed experiment? The Contagious Diseases Acts in Bombay
- Racial stratification and the discourse of trafficking
- Akootai's death: subaltern Indian brothel workers
- Abolition and nationalism
- Conclusion: the failed promise of laws: contemporary reflections.