When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 / / Saheed Aderinto
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| Autore: |
Aderinto Saheed
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| Titolo: |
When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 / / Saheed Aderinto
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| Pubblicazione: | Urbana, Illinois : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.740966909/04 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Colonies Africa Social policy |
| Nigeria Social policy 20th century | |
| Nigeria Politics and government To 1960 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Expanded revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Texas at Austin, 2010. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Breaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex relationship to colonialism, this book illuminates the attempts at regulating prostitution in colonial Nigeria. As Saheed Aderinto 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'. He details the Nigerian response to imported sexuality laws and the contradictory ways both African and British reformers advocated for prohibition or regulation of prostitution. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | When sex threatened the state |
| ISBN: | 0-252-08042-4 |
| 0-252-09684-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463579103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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