Codes of Misconduct
Author | : Ashwini Tambe |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2009 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780816651375 |
ISBN-13 | : 081665137X |
Rating | : 4/5 (37X Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Codes of Misconduct by : Ashwini Tambe
Download or read book Codes of Misconduct written by Ashwini Tambe and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.