Philip Howell

Geographies of Regulation

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Produktbeschreibung

This study of British authorities' attempts to regulate prostitution both at home and abroad challenges our understanding of colonial regulation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 607g
• ISBN-13: 9780521853651
• ISBN-10: 0521853656
• Artikelnr.: 26572942

Autorenporträt

Philip Howell is senior lecturer in the Department of Geography, Cambridge University and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Britain and the historical geography of regulationism; 2.
Partial legislation and privileged places: the contagious diseases acts; 3.
Liverpool, localisation and the municipal regulation of prostitution in
Britain; 4. A private contagious diseases act: prostitution and the
proctorial system in Victorian Oxbridge; 5. Sexuality, sovereignty and
space: colonial law and the making of prostitute subjects in Gibraltar and
the British Mediterranean; 6. Race and the regulation of prostitution in
Hong Kong and the overseas empire; 7. Conclusions: mapping the politics of
regulation.