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When Sex Threatened the State Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958

Saheed Aderinto (Author)
Examining the intersection of sex work and the imperial project in British Nigeria
eBook, English, 1900
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1900
Online-Ressource (288 Seiten)
9780252038884, 0252038886
1020553595
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction: Sex and Sexuality in African Colonial Encounter""; ""Chapter 1. ""This Is a City of Bubbles"": Lagos and the Phenomenon of Colonial Urbanism""; ""Chapter 2. ""The Vulgar and Obscene Language"": Prostitution, Criminality, and Immorality""; ""Chapter 3. Childhood Innocence, Adult Criminality: Child Prostitution and Moral Anxiety""; ""Chapter 4. The Sexual Scourge of Imperial Order: Race, the Medicalization of Sex, and Colonial Secur""
""Chapter 5. Sexualized Laws, Criminalized Bodies: Anti-Prostitution Law and the Making of a New Socio""""Chapter 6. Men, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Control""; ""Chapter 7. Lagos Elite Women and the Struggle for Legitimacy""; ""Epilogue: Prostitution and Trafficking in the Age of HIV/AIDS""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""