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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 on how the laws operated, but how they also further justified the distinction between the colonizer and the colonized.
| ISBN | 0415944473 | | Pages | 512 | | ISBN13 | 9780415944472
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 658 | | Imprint | Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group | | Published in | New York | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 222 | | Publication date | 18 Sep 2003 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Library of Congress | HQ185.A5 \, HQ185.A5 \ | | Spine width (mm) | 32 | | DEWEY | 306.7409177241 | | Academic level | General, Professional / Scholarly, Tertiary education | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Introduction | | 1 | | Ch. 1 | | Comparing Colonial Sites | | 15 | | Pt. I | | Contagious Diseases Laws | | | | Ch. 2 | | Law, Gender, and Medicine | | 37 | | Ch. 3 | | Colonial Medicine and the Project of Modernity | | 61 | | Ch. 4 | | Diplomacy, Disease, and Dissent | | 91 | | Ch. 5 | | Abolitionism Declawed | | 121 | | Ch. 6 | | Colonial Soldiers, White Women, and the First World War | | 145 | | Pt. II | | Race, Sex, and Politics | | | | Ch. 7 | | Prostitution, Race, and Empire | | 177 | | Ch. 8 | | The Sexual Census and the Racialization of Colonial Women | | 199 | | Ch. 9 | | White Women's Sexuality in Colonial Settings | | 231 | | Ch. 10 | | "Not A Petticoat In Sight": The Problem of Masculinity | | 257 | | Ch. 11 | | Space and Place: The Marketplace of Colonial Sex | | 297 | | | | Epilogue | | 323 | | | | Abbreviations Used in the Notes | | 329 | | | | Notes | | 331 | | | | Bibliography | | 417 | | | | Index | | 459 |
"What a rich and accomplished book this is. The product of prodigious research, it takes late nineteenth and early twentieth century British imperial efforts to regulate prostitution and control venereal disease as the point of departure for a wide-ranging, remarkably illuminating examination of gender and race, medicine and modernity, nation and empire, and, above all, sex and surveillance. Levine marshals a wealth of evidence to show the manifold ways colonial states intervened in the intimate lives of their subjects. This book should be read by all historians of modern Britain and its empire." -- Dane Kennedy, Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University "In this archivally rich, geographically far-reaching and admirably comprehensive study, Philippa Levine offers us the first genuinely transnational account of how and why sexuality was regulated in the modern British Empire. Grounding her sweeping history in four coloni
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