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Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire

Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire

Levine, Philippa

Hardcover

British HistorySexualityWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0415944465
ISBN13: 9780415944465
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 24 2003
Pages: 490
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.48
Language: English
In addition to shouldering the blame for the increasing incidence of venereal disease among sailors and soldiers, prostitutes throughout the British Empire also bore the burden of the contagious diseases ordinances that the British government passed. By studying how British authorities enforced these laws in four colonial sites between the 1860s and the end of the First World War, Philippa Levine reveals how myths and prejudices about the sexual practices of colonized peoples not only had a direct and often punishing effect on how the laws operated, but how they also further justified the distinction between the colonizer and the colonized.

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