Report

Report
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1906
Genre: Libraries
ISBN:

Codes of Misconduct

Codes of Misconduct
Author: Ashwini Tambe
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 081665137X

Across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, legislators in Bombay passed a series of repetitive laws seeking to control prostitution. During the same time, Bombay's sex industry grew vast in scale. Ashwini Tambe explores why these remarkably similar laws failed to achieve their goal and questions the actual purpose of such lawmaking.