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Author George, Abosede A., author.

Title Making modern girls : a history of girlhood, labor, and social development in Colonial Lagos / Abosede A. George.

Publication Info. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series New African histories
New African histories series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index.
Contents Introduction: Girling the subject -- 1. Working well: gender, status, and social reform among educated elite women in colonial Lagos, 1900/1920 -- 2. Making the modern child in the era of imperial liberalism -- 3. Setting up the welfare city: prelude to the Children and Young Person's Ordinance of 1943 -- 4. Street hawker, the street walker, and the salvationist gaze -- 5. Problem girls, private vice, and public secrets in Lagos -- 6. Delinquents to breadwinners and hawkers to homemakers: gender, juvenile justice, and reform in the welfare city -- 7. For women, girls, and the nation? the politics of girl saving in the era of anticolonial nationalism -- Conclusion: banning hawkers sixty years later.
Summary In Making Modern Girls, Abosede A. George examines the influence of African social reformers and the developmentalist colonial state on the practice and ideology of girlhood as well as its intersection with child labor in Lagos, Nigeria. It draws from gender studies, generational studies, labor history, and urban history to shed new light on the complex workings of African cities from the turn of the twentieth century through the nationalist era of the 1950s. The two major schemes at the center of this study were the modernization project of elite Lagosian women and the salvationist project.
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Subject Girls -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- History -- 20th century.
Girls.
Nigeria -- Lagos.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Child labor -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- History -- 20th century.
Child labor.
Peddlers -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- History -- 20th century.
Peddlers.
Public welfare -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- History -- 20th century.
Public welfare.
Social change -- Nigeria -- Lagos.
Social change.
Lagos (Nigeria) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social policy.
Great Britain.
Colonies.
Social policy.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Girls.
Other Form: Print version: George, Abosede A. Making modern girls. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2014] 9780821421154 (DLC) 2014020141 (OCoLC)880966158
ISBN 9780821445013 (electronic book)
0821445014 (electronic book)
9780821421154 (hc ; alkaline paper)
0821421158 (hc ; alkaline paper)
9780821421161 (pb ; alkaline paper)
0821421166 (pb ; alkaline paper)