{"product_id":"codes-of-misconduct-ashwini-tambe-9780816651382","title":"Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay","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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Against the backdrop of the industrial growth of Bombay, \u003ci\u003eCodes of Misconduct \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the relationship between lawmaking, law enforcement, and sexual commerce. Ashwini Tambe challenges linear readings of how laws create effects and demonstrates that the regulation and criminalization of prostitution were not contrasting approaches to prostitution but different modes of state coercion. By analyzing legal prohibitions as productive forces, she also probes the pornographic imagination of the colonial state, showing how regulations made sexual commerce more visible but rendered the prostitute silent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCodes of Misconduct\u003c\/i\u003e engages with debates on state control of sex work and traces how a colonial legacy influences contemporary efforts to contain the spread of HIV and decriminalize sex workers in India today. In doing so, Tambe's work not only adds to our understanding of empire, sexuality, and the law, it also sheds new light on the long history of Bombay's transnational links and the social worlds of its underclasses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ashwini Tambe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816651388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816651382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2009 pg. 136","brand":"Ashwini Tambe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926485893375,"sku":"9780816651382","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e1aebc74-120c-450e-b97f-557562666cc6.jpg?v=1681083337","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/codes-of-misconduct-ashwini-tambe-9780816651382","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}