Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay

Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay
ISBN-10
081665137X
ISBN-13
9780816651375
Category
History
Pages
210
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
U of Minnesota Press
Author
Ashwini Tambe

Description

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.

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