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. Against the backdrop of the industrial growth of
Bombay, Codes of Misconduct examines the relationship between
lawmaking, law enforcement, and sexual commerce. Ashwini Tambe
challenges linear readings of how laws create effects and
demonstrates that the regulation and criminalization of
prostitution were not contrasting approaches to prostitution but
different modes of state coercion. By analyzing legal prohibitions
as productive forces, she also probes the pornographic imagination
of the colonial state, showing how regulations made sexual commerce
more visible but rendered the prostitute silent. Codes of
Misconduct engages with debates on state control of sex work and
traces how a colonial legacy influences contemporary efforts to
contain the spread of HIV and decriminalize sex workers in India
today. In doing so, Tambe's work not only adds to our understanding
of empire, sexuality, and the law, it also sheds new light on the
long history of Bombay's transnational links and the social worlds
of its underclasses.
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