Regulationist Measures: Prostitution and Politics in the State of Mysore
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Title
Regulationist Measures: Prostitution and Politics in the State of Mysore
Subject
Cantonment
Civilian Space
Lock Hospitals
Prostitution
Syphilis
Description
The paper explores official policies towards Prostitution and the spread of Venereal Diseases in the Cantonment and Mysore Provinces. A medico-military discourse emerged in the Cantonment with the spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases among white troopers. Transgressive sex was tolerated despite prostitutes being considered a receptacle of diseases. In not recognizing the dynamics of disease transmission, regulatory measures and race, sex, and class-bias blatantly vilified prostitutes. Though civilian spaces in the State of Karnataka were not as complex, regulations were enforced in tandem with the Cantonment during the colonial rule. Consequently, after the independence, the State’s measures were coincidental with the social purity movement’s censure of Devadasis.
Creator
M, Jamuna
Source
Artha Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 17 No. 2 (2018): Artha Journal of Social Sciences; 105-116
0000-0000
0975-329X
Publisher
Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore
Date
2018-04-01
Rights
Copyright (c) 2019 Artha - Journal of Social Sciences
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Relation
Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
Text
Identifier
Collection
Citation
Jamuna M, Regulationist Measures: Prostitution and Politics in the State of Mysore, Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, 2018, accessed November 22, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/445