num_pages: 492
description: 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.
language: English
title: Prostitution, Race and Politics
titlecomplete: Prostitution, Race and Politics
genres: Gender, Politics, Sex Work, European History, Nonfiction, Law, Health, Gender and Sexuality, Race, History
ratings_count: 71
publisher: Routledge