{"product_id":"prostitution-and-the-ends-of-empire-scale-governmentalities-and-interwar-india-9780822357735","title":"Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India","description":"Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campaigns led by Indian, imperial, and international bodies were combining the social scientific insights of sexology and hygiene with the moral condemnations of sexual slavery and human trafficking. These reformers identified the brothel as exacerbating rather than containing \"corrupting prostitutes\" and the threat of venereal diseases, and therefore encouraged the suppression of brothels rather than their urban segregation. In this book, Stephen Legg tracks the complex spatial politics surrounding brothels in the interwar period at multiple scales, including the local, regional, national, imperial, and global. Campaigns and state policies against brothels did not just operate at different scales but \u003ci\u003emade\u003c\/i\u003e scales themselves, forging new urban, provincial, colonial, and international formations. In so doing, they also remade the boundary between the state and the social, through which the prostitute was, Legg concludes, \"civilly abandoned.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Legg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822357735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen Legg is Associate Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSpaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eSpatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40414668718195,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":48.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_44e18692-a2f7-44b2-b202-aaa2eeead9cf.jpg?v=1662213861","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/prostitution-and-the-ends-of-empire-scale-governmentalities-and-interwar-india-9780822357735","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}