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When Sex Threatened the State - Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 (Hardcover)
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When Sex Threatened the State - Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 (Hardcover)
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Breaking 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.
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