Codes of misconduct : regulating prostitution in late colonial Bombay / Ashwini Tambe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tambe, Ashwini.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--India--Bombay--History--19th century.

Prostitution.

Prostitution--India--Bombay--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction: prostitution and the law in Bombay

The colonial state, law, and sexuality

A failed experiment? The Contagious Diseases Acts in Bombay

Racial stratification and the discourse of trafficking

Akootai's death: subaltern Indian brothel workers

Abolition and nationalism

Conclusion: the failed promise of laws: contemporary reflections.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6795-0

OCLC:

527737441