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When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958
- Title
- When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 / Saheed Aderinto.
- Author
- Aderinto, Saheed
- Publication
- Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2015.
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- Description
- xviii, 241 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Sex > Political aspects > Nigeria > History > 20th century
- Nigeria > Politics and government > To 1960
- Sexually transmitted diseases > Nigeria > History > 20th century
- Sex > Social aspects > Nigeria > History > 20th century
- Sexually transmitted diseases > Colonies > Great Britain
- Nigeria > Social policy > 20th century
- Child prostitution > Nigeria > History > 20th century
- Prostitution > Nigeria > History > 20th century
- Prostitution > Law and legislation > Nigeria
- Black author
- Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > Social policy
- Note
- Expanded revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-235) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 15-818
- ISBN
- 9780252038884 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0252038886 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780252080425 (paperback : alk. paper)
- 0252080424 (paperback : alk. paper)
- 9780252096846 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 0252096843 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014016324
- OCLC
- 898908825
- Author
- Aderinto, Saheed, author.
- Title
- When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 / Saheed Aderinto.
- Publisher
- Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-235) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 15-818