[Reader-list] [Announcements] Invitation /12 Apr 07 (Thur) 3-4:30pm, Prostitutes and Politics: the Tolerated Brothels Debate in Colonial India

[Sumit Baudh]

The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality is hosting a
discussion on

 

Prostitutes and Politics:

the Tolerated Brothels Debate

in Colonial India

12 April 2007 (Thursday),  3:00 - 4:30 pm

TARSHI, 11, Mathura Road, First Floor, Jangpura B, New Delhi

 

 

In 19th century colonial India the reaction to the threat (both social and
biological) of the prostitute was to forcibly confine infected women in
"lock hospitals".  An international backlash against these measures left the
government in need of a method of regulating prostitutes without seeming to
impinge upon their liberty.  

 

 

Steve Legg, PhD will make a presentation for 45 minutes, tracing the 20th
century evolution of the legislative machinery that allowed the state to
exert some authority over female prostitutes.  This involved a shift from
initial policies of segregating women into certain quarters of a town, to
the later targeting of brothels under the Suppression of Immoral Traffic
Acts, both of which the prostitutes resisted and challenged in various ways.

 

 

Steve attained BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge and spent three
following years as a Research Fellow.  He is now a Lecturer in cultural and
historical geography at the University of Nottingham and has a book out in
March/April entitled Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities
to be published by Blackwells (in the UK, America and Australia) and Rawat
Publishers (in India).  He is currently expanding this work on urban
politics to look at the regulatory policies applied to prostitutes in 20th
century colonial India.  This entails situating the local history of Delhi's
prostitutes in the national politics of the Suppression of Immoral Traffic
Acts and the international politics of social hygiene campaigners and the
League of Nations.

 

 

The presentation will be followed by an open discussion.

 

 

Please stay for tea /coffee and biscuits from 4:30 - 5:00pm. 

 

 

RSVP:

Sumit Baudh

Senior Programme Associate

The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality

TARSHI, 11 Mathura Road, 1st Floor, Jangpura B, New Delhi-110014 

tel:  +91  11  2437  9070,   +91  11  2437  9071

fax: +91  11  2437  4022

eml: sumit at tarshi.net

web: www.asiasrc.org <outbind://189/www.asiasrc.org> 

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