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Short - 19708 (copy)
19708
Short
Against the backdrop of the industrial growth of Bombay, Codes ofMisconduct 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.