Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire by Philippa Levine

Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire

Philippa Levine

480 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction gender health history challenging dark informative slow-paced
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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 pass...

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