Codes of Misconduct : Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tambe, Ashwini
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Prostitution.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Prostitution & Sex Trade.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
Prostitution > India > Mumbai > History > 20th century.
Prostitution > India > Mumbai > History > 19th century.
India > Mumbai.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 questions the actual purpose of such lawmaking. Against the backdrop of the industrial growth of Bombay, Codes of Misconduct examines the relationship between lawmaking, law enforcement, and sexual commerce. Ashwini Tambe challenges linear readings of how laws create effects and demonstrates that the regulati.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (224 pages): map
ISBN:9780816667956

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