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The Resource When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958, Saheed Aderinto

When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958, Saheed Aderinto

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Breaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex relationship to colonialism, this book illuminates the attempts at regulating prostitution in colonial Nigeria. It shows, British colonizers saw prostitution as an African form of sexual primitivity and a problem to be solved as part of imperialism's "civilizing mission."
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eng
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1 online resource
Note
Expanded Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Texas at Austin, 2010
Contents
  • Epilogue. Prostitution and trafficking in the age of HIV/AIDS
  • 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
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9780252096846
Link
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt6wr6cz
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When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958
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When sex threatened the state
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illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958
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Saheed Aderinto
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
Breaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex relationship to colonialism, this book illuminates the attempts at regulating prostitution in colonial Nigeria. It shows, British colonizers saw prostitution as an African form of sexual primitivity and a problem to be solved as part of imperialism's "civilizing mission."
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non fiction
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  • bibliography
When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958, Saheed Aderinto
Label
When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958, Saheed Aderinto
Link
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt6wr6cz
Publication
Note
Expanded Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Texas at Austin, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
  • Epilogue. Prostitution and trafficking in the age of HIV/AIDS
  • 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
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