Managing Sex, Safeguarding the Soldier

Gender, Race, and Regulationism in Nineteenth Century Colonial Punjab

Bibliographic Data

ID2966766
AuthorsSameera Chauhan (Australian National University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume8
Issue2
Pages33
Publication date2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Encounters A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2468-4414 • E-ISSN: 2468-4414
PublisherLectito Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.20897/femenc/14945
OpenAlexW4402112179
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

Managing sex was an important part of Britain's imperial project in the colonies. Using a wide range of archival materials and examining the political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this study delves into the colonial military enterprise of regulating sexual recreation for British troops, and the processes through which the sexualised native woman was configured in colonial Punjab. I argue that paradoxical attempts to make sex available, while simultaneously emphasising imperial social mores of sexual respectability, led to the casting of the 'prostitute' as a colonial bogeyman; a vulgar but necessary evil, and a vector of disease

Archaeology · Colonialism · Race (biology) · Safeguarding · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Medicine · Nursing · Philippine History and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts

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