When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 - Saheed Aderinto - Books - University of Illinois Press - 9780252080425 - November 25, 2014
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Saheed Aderinto
When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 1st edition

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Breaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex relationship to colonialism, this book illuminates the attempts at regulating prostitution in colonial Nigeria. It 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".

264 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 25, 2014
ISBN13 9780252080425
Publishers University of Illinois Press
Pages 264
Dimensions 156 × 235 × 23 mm   ·   476 g
Language English  

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