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When Sex Threatened the State:

Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958

ISBN-13: 9780252080425
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Saheed Aderinto
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Local release date: 13/02/2015
Format: Paperback 264 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Asian history [HBJF]

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Google Preview: Examining the intersection of sex work and the imperial project in British NigeriaBreaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex relationship to colonialism, When Sex Threatened the State 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. Tracing the tensions within diverse groups of colonizers and the colonized, he reveals how wrangling over prostitution camouflaged the negotiating of separate issues that threatened the social, political, and sexual ideologies of Africans and Europeans alike. The first book-length project on sexuality in early twentieth century Nigeria, When Sex Threatened the State combines the study of a colonial demimonde with an urban history of Lagos and a look at government policy to reappraise the history of Nigerian public life.; ""A rigorous and innovative study of illicit sexuality and attempts at regulating it in colonial Lagos. . . . Without question the most detailed and systematic examination of prostitution in west Africa. . . . This is an innovative, well-researched, and extremely valuable work of scholarship.""--Steven Pierce, author of Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination ""A significant contribution to Nigerian and African historical studies as well as to the study of sex and sexuality within the British Empire.""--Gloria Chuku, author of Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria; Google Preview content

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When Sex Threatened the State:

Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958