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Illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958
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Illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 [electronic resource] / Saheed Aderinto.
ISBN
0252096843
9780252096846
9780252038884 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252080425 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2014. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Notes
Expanded revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 African Studies.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 History.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 06, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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