Prostitution, race, and politics : policing venereal disease in the British Empire / Philippa Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Philippa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--Government policy--Colonies--Great Britain--History.

Prostitution.

Prostitution--Government policy.

Colonies.

Great Britain.

History.

Sexually transmitted diseases--Government policy--Colonies--Great Britain--History.

Sexually transmitted diseases.

Sexually transmitted diseases--Government policy.

British--Colonies--Sexual behavior--Great Britain.

British.

British--Diseases--Colonies--Great Britain.

Diseases.

Great Britain--Colonies--Social policy.

Social policy.

Great Britain--Colonies--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

ix, 480 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

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 to combat it. 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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Comparing Colonial Sites 15

Part I Contagious Diseases Laws

Chapter 2 Law, Gender, and Medicine 37

Chapter 3 Colonial Medicine and the Project of Modernity 61

Chapter 4 Diplomacy, Disease, and Dissent 91

Chapter 5 Abolitionism Declawed 121

Chapter 6 Colonial Soldiers, White Women, and the First World War 145

Part II Race, Sex, and Politics

Chapter 7 Prostitution, Race, and Empire 177

Chapter 8 The Sexual Census and the Racialization of Colonial Women 199

Chapter 9 White Women's Sexuality in Colonial Settings 231

Chapter 10 "Not A Petticoat In Sight": The Problem of Masculinity 257

Chapter 11 Space and Place: The Marketplace of Colonial Sex 297.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [417]-458) and index.

ISBN:

0415944465

0415944473

OCLC:

51800043