ISBN:
9780821445013
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0821445014
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9780821421154
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0821421158
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9780821421161
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0821421166
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 301 pages)
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illustrations
Series Statement:
New African histories series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als George, Abosede A . Making modern girls
DDC:
305.2308209669/1
Keywords:
1900 - 1999
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Geschichte 1900-2000
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Geschichte 1900-1955
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
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British colonies
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Child labor
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Girls
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Peddlers
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Public welfare
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Social change
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Social conditions
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Social policy
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Geschichte
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Girls History 20th century
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Child labor History 20th century
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Peddlers History 20th century
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Public welfare History 20th century
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Social change
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Mädchen
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Soziale Rolle
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Kinderarbeit
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Soziale Situation
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Kolonialismus
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Sozialer Wandel
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Lagos
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Nigeria
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Electronic books
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Electronic books History
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Electronic books
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Nigeria
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Lagos
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Kolonialismus
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Mädchen
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Kinderarbeit
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Sozialer Wandel
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Geschichte 1900-1955
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Nigeria
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Lagos
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Mädchen
;
Soziale Rolle
;
Soziale Situation
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Geschichte 1900-1955
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Print version record
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Introduction: Girling the subject --
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Working well: gender, status, and social reform among educated elite women in colonial Lagos, 1900/1920 --
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Making the modern child in the era of imperial liberalism --
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Setting up the welfare city: prelude to the Children and Young Person's Ordinance of 1943 --
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The street hawker, the street walker, and the salvationist gaze --
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Problem girls, private vice, and public secrets in Lagos --
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Delinquents to breadwinners and hawkers to homemakers: gender, juvenile justice, and reform in the welfare city --
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For women, girls, and the nation? the politics of girl saving in the era of anticolonial nationalism --
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Conclusion: banning hawkers sixty years later
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