ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction
chapter |20 pages
Comparing Colonial Sites
part |139 pages
Contagious Diseases Laws
chapter |23 pages
Law, Gender, and Medicine
chapter |30 pages
Colonial Medicine and the Project of Modernity
chapter |29 pages
Diplomacy, Disease, and Dissent
chapter |23 pages
Abolitionism Declawed
chapter |29 pages
Colonial Soldiers, White Women, and the First World War
part |148 pages
Race, Sex, and Politics