An intimate and imperial feminism: Meliscent Shephard and the regulation of prostitution in colonial India

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An intimate and imperial feminism: Meliscent Shephard and the regulation of prostitution in colonial India

This paper seeks to construct an antinostalgic portrait of an imperial feminist. As the representative of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene (AMSH) in India between 1928 and 1947, Meliscent Shephard was an embodiment not only of the feminist urge to challenge patriarchal gender relations,...

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Main Author:	Legg, Stephen
Format:	Article
Published:	Pion
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1869/

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