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

Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415944472)

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

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

$49.95
Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire by Levine, Philippa

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

$49.95
Format: Paperback
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In addition to shouldering the blame for the increasing incidence of venereal disease among sailors and soldiers, prostitutes throughout the British Empire also bore the burden of the contagious diseases ordinances that the British government passed. By studying how British authorities enforced these laws in four colonial sites between the 1860s and the end of the First World War, Philippa Levine reveals how myths and prejudices about the sexual practices of colonized peoples not only had a direct and often punishing effect on how the laws operated, but how they also further justified the distinction between the colonizer and the colonized.

Author: Philippa Levine
ISBN-10: 0415944473
ISBN-13: 9780415944472
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2003
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.14w x 1.03d
By Philippa Levine
By Philippa Levine
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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 BritishEmpire.

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