Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire
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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.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Ch. 1Comparing Colonial Sites15Pt. IContagious Diseases LawsCh. 2Law, Gender, and Medicine37Ch. 3Colonial Medicine and the Project of Modernity61Ch. 4Diplomacy, Disease, and Dissent91Ch. 5Abolitionism Declawed121Ch. 6Colonial Soldiers, White Women, and the First World War145Pt. IIRace, Sex, and PoliticsCh. 7Prostitution, Race, and Empire177Ch. 8The Sexual Census and the Racialization of Colonial Women199Ch. 9White Women's Sexuality in Colonial Settings231Ch. 10"Not A Petticoat In Sight": The Problem of Masculinity257Ch. 11Space and Place: The Marketplace of Colonial Sex297Epilogue323Abbreviations Used in the Notes329Notes331Bibliography417Index459
