Making Modern Girls : A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development in Colonial Lagos.
Title:
Making Modern Girls : A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development in Colonial Lagos.
Author:
George, Abosede A.
ISBN:
9780821445013
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (245 pages)
Series:
New African Histories
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Girling the Subject -- 1: Working Well -- 2: Making the Modern Child in the Era of Imperial Liberalism -- 3: Setting Up the Welfare City -- 4: The 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 -- 7: For Women, Girls, and the Nation? -- Conclusion: Banning Hawkers Sixty Years Later -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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