Title When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 / Saheed Aderinto.

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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Note	Expanded revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : sex and sexuality in African colonial encounter -- "This is a city of bubbles" : Lagos and the phenomenon of colonial urbanism -- "The vulgar and obscene language" : prostitution, criminality, and immorality -- Childhood innocence, adult criminality : child prostitution and moral anxiety -- Sexual scourge of imperial order : race, the medicalization of sex, and colonial security -- Sexualized laws, criminalized bodies : anti-prostitution law and the making of a new socio-sexual order -- Men, masculinities, and the politics of sexual control -- Lagos elite women and the struggle for legitimacy -- Epilogue. Prostitution and trafficking in the age of HIV/AIDS.
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Subject	Sex -- Political aspects -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century.
	Sex -- Political aspects.
	Nigeria.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Sex.
	Sex -- Social aspects -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century.
	Sex -- Social aspects.
	Prostitution -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century.
	Prostitution.
	Child prostitution -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century.
	Child prostitution.
	Prostitution -- Law and legislation -- Nigeria.
	Prostitution -- Law and legislation.
	Sexually transmitted diseases -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century.
	Sexually transmitted diseases.
	Sexually transmitted diseases -- Great Britain -- Colonies.
	Great Britain.
	Colonies.
	Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Social policy.
	Africa.
	Social policy.
	Nigeria -- Social policy -- 20th century.
	Nigeria -- Politics and government -- To 1960.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	To 1960
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Subject	Female prostitution.
	Prostitution.
	STDs.
Other Form:	Print version: Aderinto, Saheed, author. When sex threatened the state 9780252038884 (DLC) 2014016324 (OCoLC)877844640
ISBN	9780252096846 electronic book
	0252096843 electronic book
	9780252038884
	0252038886
	9780252080425
	0252080424

Title When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 / Saheed Aderinto.

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