Levine Prostitution, Race and Politics

Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-94502-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 490 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levine, Philippa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Comparing Colonial Sites
PART I: CONTAGIOUS DISEASES LAWS
2. Law, Medicine and Morality: Introducing Contagious Diseases Legislation
3. Colonial Medicine and the Project of Modernity
4. Diplomacy, Disease and Dissent
5. Abolitionism Declawed
6. Colonial Soldiers, White Women and the First World War
PART II: RACE, SEX, AND POLITICS
7. Prostitution, Race and Empire
8. The Sexual Census and the Racialization of Colonial Women
9. White Women's Sexuality in Colonial Settings
10. 'Not A Petticoat In Sight': The Problem of Masculinity
11. Space and Place: The Marketplace of Colonial Sex
Epilogue
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

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.