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Codes of misconduct : regulating prostitution in late colonial Bombay
- Title
- Codes of misconduct : regulating prostitution in late colonial Bombay / Ashwini Tambe.
- Author
- Tambe, Ashwini.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xxvii, 179 p. : map; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Prostitution > India > Bombay > History > 19th century
- Prostitution > India > Bombay > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: prostitution and the law in Bombay -- The colonial state, law, and sexuality -- A failed experiment? The Contagious Diseases Acts in Bombay -- Racial stratification and the discourse of trafficking -- Akootai's death: subaltern Indian brothel workers -- Abolition and nationalism -- Conclusion: the failed promise of laws: contemporary reflections.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-4442
- ISBN
- 9780816651375 (hc : alk. paper)
- 081665137X (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780816651382 (pb : alk. paper)
- 0816651388 (pb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008053779
- OCLC
- 286478205
- Author
- Tambe, Ashwini.
- Title
- Codes of misconduct : regulating prostitution in late colonial Bombay / Ashwini Tambe.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-4442