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OverviewBreaking 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Saheed AderintoPublisher: University of Illinois Press Imprint: University of Illinois Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.426kg ISBN: 9780252080425ISBN 10: 0252080424 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 25 November 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsA 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 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 The first comprehensive history of sexuality of colonial Nigeria, Aderinto's book is an invaluable addition to both historiographies of colonial Africa and African sexualities. --Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality 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 ofFarmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination Author InformationSaheed Aderinto is an assistant professor of history at Western Carolina University and coauthor of Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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