Geographies of Regulation : Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Empire (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Britain and the historical geography of regulationism; 2. Partial legislation and privileged places: the contagious diseases acts; 3. Liverpool, localisation and the municipal regulation of prostitution in Britain; 4. A private contagious diseases act: prostitution and the proctorial system in Victorian Oxbridge; 5. Sexuality, sovereignty and space: colonial law and the making of prostitute subjects in Gibraltar and the British Mediterranean; 6. Race and the regulation of prostitution in Hong Kong and the overseas empire; 7. Conclusions: mapping the politics of regulation.