When Sex Threatened the State

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".

שנה

2014

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of Illinois Press

מהדורות

4

עמודים

288

ISBN

9780252038884

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata