Professor STEPHEN LEGG stephen.legg@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Historical Geography
fficially 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. These reformers identified the brothel as exacerbating rather than containing "corrupting prostitutes" and the threat of venereal diseases, and therefore encouraged the suppression of brothels rather than their urban segregation. In this book, Stephen Legg tracks the complex spatial politics surrounding brothels in the interwar period at multiple scales, including the local, regional, national, imperial, and global. Campaigns and state policies against brothels did not just operate at different scales but made scales themselves, forging new urban, provincial, colonial, and international formations. In so doing, they also remade the boundary between the state and the social, through which the prostitute was, Legg concludes, "civilly abandoned."
Legg, S. (2014). Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822376170
Book Type | Authored Book |
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Publication Date | Sep 21, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Sep 10, 2014 |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Book Title | Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India |
Chapter Number | n/a |
ISBN | 9780822357735 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822376170 |
Keywords | Prostitution--Government policy--India--History--20th century; Prostitution--India--History--20th century. |
Public URL | https://www.dukeupress.edu/Prostitution-and-the-Ends-of-Empire/index-viewby=subject&categoryid=74&sort=newest.html |
Publisher URL | https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/221/ |
Contract Date | Dec 20, 2013 |
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