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Prostitution and the ends of empire : scale, governmentalities, and interwar India /

A theoretically sophisticated historical account of the ways prostitution was managed and regulated in the interwar period in colonial India. Stephen Legg shows that such regulation was outsourced by the government to reformatist civil societies, such as the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Legg, Stephen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: spatial genealogies from segregation to suppression
  • Civil abandonment : the inclusive exclusion of Delhi's prostitutes
  • Assembling India: the birth of Sita
  • Imperial moral and social hygiene
  • Conclusion: within and beyond the city.