Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0822357739 | 296 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0822357739 | 296 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
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.