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Making modern girls : a history of girlhood, labor, and social development in Colonial Lagos
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- Creator
- Abosede A. George
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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- Physical Details
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- x, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0821421158, 9780821421161, 0821421166, 0821445014, 9780821421154, 9780821445013
- OCLC
- ocn903422892, ocn880966158
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index.
- Introduction: Girling the subject -- 1. Working well: gender, status, and social reform among educated elite women in colonial Lagos, 1900/1920 -- 2. Making the modern child in the era of imperial liberalism -- 3. Setting up the welfare city: prelude to the Children and Young Person's Ordinance of 1943 -- 4. The street hawker, the street walker, and the salvationist gaze -- 5. Problem girls, private vice, and public secrets in Lagos -- 6. Delinquents to breadwinners and hawkers to homemakers: gender, juvenile justice, and reform in the welfare city -- 7. For women, girls, and the nation? the politics of girl saving in the era of anticolonial nationalism -- Conclusion: banning hawkers sixty years later
Subjects
- Girls -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- History -- 20th century.
- Child labor -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- History -- 20th century.
- Peddlers -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- History -- 20th century.
- Public welfare -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- History -- 20th century.
- Social change -- Nigeria -- Lagos.
- Lagos (Nigeria) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social policy.