Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire

ISBN-13: 9780415944465 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 490 str.

Philippa Levine; P. Levine;Levine Philippa

Opis

While most agree that Contagious Diseases (CD) ordinances were put in place primarily to protect the health of British soldiers, a closer examination reveals that the laws were not just about the control of VD but also a conscious instrument of colonial dominance.

Spis treści

Introduction1. Comparing Colonial SitesPART I: CONTAGIOUS DISEASES LAWS2. Law, Medicine and Morality: Introducing Contagious Diseases Legislation3. Colonial Medicine and the Project of Modernity4. Diplomacy, Disease and Dissent5. Abolitionism Declawed6. Colonial Soldiers, White Women and the First World WarPART II: RACE, SEX, AND POLITICS7. Prostitution, Race and Empire8. The Sexual Census and the Racialization of Colonial Women9. White Women's Sexuality in Colonial Settings10. 'Not A Petticoat In Sight': The Problem of Masculinity11. Space and Place: The Marketplace of Colonial SexEpilogueBibliography

O autorze

Philippa Levine is Professor of History at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She is the author of the forthcoming A Short History of the British Empire and a contributor to the Oxford History of the British Empire.