Geographies of regulation policing prostitution in nineteenth-century Britain and the Empire
By: Philip Howell.
Series: Cambridge studies in historical geography
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521853651
Subjects: Prostitution -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Prostitution -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Britain and the historical geography of regulationism; title: Partial legislation and privileged places : the contagious diseases acts; title: Liverpool, localisation, and the municipal regulation of prostitution in Britain; title: A private contagious diseases act : prostitution and the proctorial system in Victorian Cambridge; title: Sexuality, sovereignty, and space : colonial law and the making of prostitute subjects in Gibraltar and the British Mediterranean; title: Race and the regulation of prostitution in Hong Kong and the overseas empire; title: Conclusions : mapping the politics of regulation.