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When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958
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- Creator
- Saheed Aderinto
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2015
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 241 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0252096843, 0252038886, 9780252080425, 0252080424, 132233496X, 9780252038884, 9780252096846
- OCLC
- ocn898908825, ocn900675543
- Expanded revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index.
- Introduction : sex and sexuality in African colonial encounter -- "This is a city of bubbles" : Lagos and the phenomenon of colonial urbanism -- "The vulgar and obscene language" : prostitution, criminality, and immorality -- Childhood innocence, adult criminality : child prostitution and moral anxiety -- The sexual scourge of imperial order : race, the medicalization of sex, and colonial security -- Sexualized laws, criminalized bodies : anti-prostitution law and the making of a new socio-sexual order -- Men, masculinities, and the politics of sexual control -- Lagos elite women and the struggle for legitimacy -- Epilogue. Prostitution and trafficking in the age of HIV/AIDS
Subjects
- Sex -- Political aspects -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century.
- Sex -- Social aspects -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century.
- Prostitution -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century.
- Child prostitution -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century.
- Prostitution -- Law and legislation -- Nigeria.
- Sexually transmitted diseases -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century.
- Sexually transmitted diseases -- Colonies -- Great Britain.
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Social policy.
- Nigeria -- Social policy -- 20th century.
- Nigeria -- Politics and government -- To 1960.