Books by Ashwini Tambe
“She opens with a conversation that she had with a doctor in the early 2000s and reflects on how he repeated the same discourses that she found in historical documents from the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. This illustrates the pervasiveness of ideas about medical checks for sex workers, residential segregation, the need for red light districts, and the need to police prostitution in order to combat disease, although concerns in the early 21st century are connected to the AIDS pandemic rather than Syphilis and Gonorrhea.” Read more...
Siobhán Hearne, Historian
Interviews where books by Ashwini Tambe were recommended
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Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960
by Julia Laite -
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The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria
by Nancy M. Wingfield -
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Code of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay
by Ashwini Tambe -
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When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria 1900-1958
by Saheed Aderinto -
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Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City
by Katherine Elaine Bliss
History of Prostitution Books, recommended by Siobhán Hearne
History of Prostitution Books, recommended by Siobhán Hearne
Societies of all different stamps have tried to eliminate prostitution but it never works and there are always unintended consequences. Siobhan Hearne, a historian of sexuality in Tsarist and Soviet Russia, explains how exploring the history of prostitution provides fascinating insights into social and political history as well as offering some genuine, and very clear, lessons from the past.
