A review by charliebenwah
Geographies of Regulation: Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Empire by Philip Howell

informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

I think that this book had a lot of interesting questions and a lot of good information, but it was not really easy to follow in some of the parts. It felt a little repetetive towards the end, and for a book about the history of sex work, Howell truly did not bring in the voices of many women, in primary OR secondary sources. I understand that primary source material from women may be scarce, but Josephine Butler and other activists had extensive material that he could have used more frequently, AND it could have helped his point! Other than that, this book did make me think through a historical lens that I usually don't, and I will be using his findings for at least some of my research.