When Sex Threatened the State
ebook ∣ Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958
By Saheed Aderinto
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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.| Cover Title Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Sex and Sexuality in African Colonial Encounter Chapter 1. "This Is a City of Bubbles": Lagos and the Phenomenon of Colonial Urbanism Chapter 2. "The Vulgar and Obscene Language": Prostitution, Criminality, and Immorality Chapter 3. Childhood Innocence, Adult Criminality: Child Prostitution and Moral Anxiety Chapter 4. The Sexual Scourge of Imperial Order: Race, the Medicalization of Sex, and Colonial Secur Chapter 5. Sexualized Laws, Criminalized Bodies: Anti-Prostitution Law and the Making of a New Socio Chapter 6. Men, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Control Chapter 7. Lagos Elite Women and the Struggle for Legitimacy Epilogue: Prostitution and Trafficking in the Age of HIV/AIDS Notes Bibliography Index | NSA Book Award, Nigerian Studies Association, 2016. — Nigerian Studies Association
|Saheed Aderinto is an assistant professor of history at Western Carolina University and coauthor of Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History.
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.| Cover Title Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Sex and Sexuality in African Colonial Encounter Chapter 1. "This Is a City of Bubbles": Lagos and the Phenomenon of Colonial Urbanism Chapter 2. "The Vulgar and Obscene Language": Prostitution, Criminality, and Immorality Chapter 3. Childhood Innocence, Adult Criminality: Child Prostitution and Moral Anxiety Chapter 4. The Sexual Scourge of Imperial Order: Race, the Medicalization of Sex, and Colonial Secur Chapter 5. Sexualized Laws, Criminalized Bodies: Anti-Prostitution Law and the Making of a New Socio Chapter 6. Men, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Control Chapter 7. Lagos Elite Women and the Struggle for Legitimacy Epilogue: Prostitution and Trafficking in the Age of HIV/AIDS Notes Bibliography Index | NSA Book Award, Nigerian Studies Association, 2016. — Nigerian Studies Association
|Saheed Aderinto is an assistant professor of history at Western Carolina University and coauthor of Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History.
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