Title Making modern girls : a history of girlhood, labor, and social development in Colonial Lagos / Abosede A. George

Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : illustrations Series New African histories New African histories series. Contents Introduction: Girling the subject -- 1. Working well: gender, status, and social reform among educated elite women in colonial Lagos, 1900/1920 -- 2. Making the modern child in the era of imperial liberalism -- 3. Setting up the welfare city: prelude to the Children and Young Person's Ordinance of 1943 -- 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: gender, juvenile justice, and reform in the welfare city -- 7. For women, girls, and the nation? the politics of girl saving in the era of anticolonial nationalism -- Conclusion: banning hawkers sixty years later Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Girls -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- History -- 20th century Child labor -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- History -- 20th century Peddlers -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- History -- 20th century Public welfare -- Nigeria -- Lagos -- History -- 20th century Social change -- Nigeria -- Lagos SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. British colonies Child labor Girls Peddlers Public welfare Social change Social conditions Social policy SUBJECT Lagos (Nigeria) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056659 Subject Nigeria -- Lagos Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780821445013 0821445014

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