When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 / Saheed Aderinto.
Material type: TextPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780252096846
- 0252096843
- 9781322334967
- 132233496X
- 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 -- Great Britain -- Colonies
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Social policy
- Nigeria -- Social policy -- 20th century
- Nigeria -- Politics and government -- To 1960
- Colonialism -- history
- Sexual Behavior -- history
- History, 20th Century
- Public Policy -- history
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- history
- Nigeria
- United Kingdom
- Sexualité -- Aspect politique -- Nigeria -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Sexualité -- Aspect social -- Nigeria -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Prostitution enfantine -- Nigeria -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Afrique -- Politique sociale
- Nigeria -- Politique et gouvernement -- Jusqu'à 1960
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- HISTORY -- Africa -- General
- British colonies
- Child prostitution
- Politics and government
- Prostitution
- Prostitution -- Law and legislation
- Sex -- Political aspects
- Sex -- Social aspects
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Social policy
- Africa
- Great Britain
- Nigeria
- To 1999
- 306.740966909/04 23
- HQ18.N55 A33 2014eb
- 2016 B-507
- HQ 18.N6
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Expanded Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references 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.
Print version record.
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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