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Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India

Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India

Legg, Stephen

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General Gender StudiesGeneral SociologyIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0822357593
ISBN13: 9780822357599
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Sep 19 2014
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campaigns led by Indian, imperial, and international bodies were combining the social scientific insights of sexology and hygiene with the moral condemnations of sexual slavery and human trafficking. These reformers identified the brothel as exacerbating rather than containing corrupting prostitutes and the threat of venereal diseases, and therefore encouraged the suppression of brothels rather than their urban segregation. In this book, Stephen Legg tracks the complex spatial politics surrounding brothels in the interwar period at multiple scales, including the local, regional, national, imperial, and global. Campaigns and state policies against brothels did not just operate at different scales but made scales themselves, forging new urban, provincial, colonial, and international formations. In so doing, they also remade the boundary between the state and the social, through which the prostitute was, Legg concludes, civilly abandoned.

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