When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 / Saheed Aderinto.
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- 9780252080425 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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- 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
- HQ18.N55 A33 2015
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Expanded revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) 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.
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