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An intimate and imperial feminism: Meliscent Shephard and the regulation of prostitution in colonial India
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Legg, S. An intimate and imperial feminism: Meliscent Shephard and the regulation of prostitution in colonial India. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28(1), https://doi.org/10.1068/d10507

This paper seeks to construct an antinostalgic portrait of an imperial feminist. As the representative of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene (AMSH) in India between 1928 and 1947, Meliscent Shephard was an embodiment not only of the feminis... Read More about An intimate and imperial feminism: Meliscent Shephard and the regulation of prostitution in colonial India.