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

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Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire 2003, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780415944472

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Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire 2003, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780415944465

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