When Sex Threatened the State
Subtitle: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Dec 30, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780252038884
Description: 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".
Notes: Source title: When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958