Codes of misconduct : regulating prostitution in late colonial Bombay / Ashwini Tambe.

Across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, legislators in Bombay passed a series of repetitive laws seeking to control prostitution. During the same time, Bombay's sex industry grew vast in scale. Ashwini Tambe explores why these remarkably similar laws failed to achieve their goal and ques...

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Main Author: Tambe, Ashwini
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009.
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