{"product_id":"when-sex-threatened-the-state-saheed-aderinto-9780252080425","title":"When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The first book-length project on sexuality in early twentieth century Nigeria, \u003ci\u003eWhen \u003c\/i\u003eSex 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Saheed Aderinto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252080424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252080425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/25\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Saheed Aderinto","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086449553663,"sku":"9780252080425","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_914862ea-e686-4348-aa0a-a398ae6ccb27.jpg?v=1769094738","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-sex-threatened-the-state-saheed-aderinto-9780252080425","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}