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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Prostitution and the Ends of Empire : |b Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India / |c Stephen Legg. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Durham : |b Duke University Press, |c 2014. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2020 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2014. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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. He tracks the ways that government policy and popular opinion shifted from acceptance of prostitution, to segregation and regulation, and, finally, to suppression and abolition. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Prostitution. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01079562 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY |z Asia |x India & South Asia. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Criminology. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Prostitution |z India |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Prostitution |x Government policy |z India |x History |y 20th century. | |
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| 655 | 7 | |a History. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 | |
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