Prostitution, race, and politics
Philippa Levine
2003
Philippa Levine's "Prostitution, Race, and Politics" examines how British colonial governments grappled with prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases, revealing how anxieties about race and empire shaped policy. The book details how official responses often reflected and reinforced prevailing racial hierarchies, linking the perceived sexual immorality of colonized populations to broader concerns about social order and imperial control. Levine demonstrates that efforts to regulate prostitution were deeply intertwined with the political and social ideologies of the British Empire.