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Book Title
Prostitution and the Ends of Empire : Scale, Governmentalities, a
ISBN
9780822357735
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
Prostitution and the Ends of Empire : Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India
Item Height
0.6in
Author
Stephen Legg
Item Length
9in
Publisher
Duke University Press
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Number of Pages
296 Pages

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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 made 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."

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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822357739
ISBN-13
9780822357735
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202521740

Product Key Features

Author
Stephen Legg
Publication Name
Prostitution and the Ends of Empire : Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
296 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Hq125.I4l44 2014
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This book is crisp and compelling and will be read with interest by those studying colonial South Asia, the regulation of sexuality, governmentality, scale, and empire, among others....Legg convincingly and provocatively argues for a study of empire that reveals its 'nodes of violence, fragility, contradiction, and complexity' (p.38), and that in this case this included a scale-inflected shaming of sex workers and deployment of scandal to defend empire and intervention, even as these interventions deepened the suffering of many women., Stephen Legg's Prostitution and the Ends of Empire excels in providing an insightful analysis of how the 'brothel' in colonial India, once tolerated for its alleged socially useful fringe benefits, became during the interwar period the target of an extensive campaign for abolition. Legg is at his best in the meticulous care with which he charts the roles and motivations of a wide variety of civil society actors--individuals, institutions, and organizations--who were important players, alongside the colonial state, in this interwar shift, including the policy of the forced removal of public 'prostitutes' out of the city in Delhi, from places like Chowri Bazar and Ajmere Gate Bazar, to marginal locations. With the skills of a geographer, Legg tacks nimbly between the space of the brothel itself and the interlocking scales of the urban, provincial, national, imperial, and international that framed it as a problem. This smart and thoroughly researched book will be welcomed by students of colonial urbanism, of sexuality, and of transational methodologies in the study of India., Stephen Legg's Scales of Prostitution excels in providing an insightful analysis of how the 'brothel' in colonial India, once tolerated for its alleged socially useful fringe benefits, became during the interwar period the target of an extensive campaign for abolition. Legg is at his best in the meticulous care with which he charts the roles and motivations of a wide variety of civil society actors--individuals, institutions, and organizations--who were important players, alongside the colonial state, in this interwar shift, including the policy of the forced removal of public 'prostitutes' out of the city in Delhi, from places like Chowri Bazar and Ajmere Gate Bazar, to marginal locations. With the skills of a geographer, Legg tacks nimbly between the space of the brothel itself and the interlocking scales of the urban, provincial, national, imperial, and international that framed it as a problem. This smart and thoroughly researched book will be welcomed by students of colonial urbanism, of sexuality, and of transational methodologies in the study of India., Legg has produced a detailed and well-researched account of colonial governmentality offering novel insights into the relationship between the state and civil society which speaks to scholars across many disciplines., Prostitution and the Ends of Empire deftly reveals that the attack on the brothel in interwar Delhi was more than just a city-specific act, but rather demonstrated the power of international, imperial, and local networks. Using Foucault's and Agamben's work, Stephen Legg persuasively shows the reimagining of the brothel as a space of danger that required its suppression. Legg's use of scalar analysis is carefully constructed and brilliantly conclusive. This is an important and original reading of colonial prostitution., Legg opens up the constitution of state/civil society, province/nation, international/national, and metropole/periphery.....Nimbly moving through a range of literatures, archives, and materials in a way that is itself multiply scaled, Prostitution and the Ends of Empire offers insights for scholars across disciplines., [T]his book sheds new light onto still occluded areas and evokes productive questions that reach beyond the specific areas and topics under discussion., This is an important book, one that refuses to accept the sexual contours of prostitution in the context of empire and insists instead on the legislative, spatial, judicial, disciplinary, and narrative aspects of colonial preoccupation with Indian morality.... The scalar reading the book employs is an elegant formulation of the need to consider the multiple trajectories of nation, city, gender, agency, and governance not only through the dualities of the colonial relationship between England and India but also within the expanded scope of the interwar period in Europe and Asia., [A] smart and original contribution to the expansive literature on colonialism and prostitution.... Legg's efforts to interweave archival and theoretical insights--to write across scales--makes Prostitution and the Ends of Empire a bold, exciting and ambitious project., Prostitution and the Ends of Empire deftly reveals that the attack on the brothel in interwar Delhi was more than just a city-specific act, but rather demonstrated the power of international, imperial and local networks. Using Foucault and Agamben's work he persuasively shows the reimagining of the brothel as a space of danger that required its suppression. Stephen Legg's use of scalar analysis is carefully constructed and brilliantly conclusive. This is an important and original reading of colonial prostitution., The fabric Legg weaves is indeed rich, and accessible to many different readerships, all of which will benefit from the important work undertaken here.
Table of Content
Preface vii Introduction. Spatial Genealogies from Segregation to Suppression 1 1. Civil Abandonment: The Inclusive Exclusion of Delhi's Prostitutes 41 2. Assembling India: The Birth of SITA 95 3. Imperial Moral and Social Hygiene 169 Conclusion. Within and beyond the City 239 Notes 247 References 259 Index 277
Copyright Date
2014
Topic
Human Geography, Gender Studies, Asia / India & South Asia, Prostitution & Sex Trade
Lccn
2014-012188
Dewey Decimal
364.15/3409540904
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science

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