Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay - Couverture souple

Tambe, Ashwini

 
9780816651382: Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0816651388 ISBN 13 : 9780816651382
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2009

Synopsis

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 regulation and criminalization of prostitution were not contrasting approaches to prostitution but different modes of state coercion. By analyzing legal prohibitions as productive forces, she also probes the pornographic imagination of the colonial state, showing how regulations made sexual commerce more visible but rendered the prostitute silent.

Codes of Misconduct engages with debates on state control of sex work and traces how a colonial legacy influences contemporary efforts to contain the spread of HIV and decriminalize sex workers in India today. In doing so, Tambe's work not only adds to our understanding of empire, sexuality, and the law, it also sheds new light on the long history of Bombay's transnational links and the social worlds of its underclasses.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ashwini Tambe is assistant professor of women's studies and history at the University of Toronto.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0816651388
ISBN 13 
9780816651382
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780816651375: Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay

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ISBN 10 :  081665137X ISBN 13 :  9780816651375
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2009
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