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

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Girling the subject -- Working well: gender, status, and social reform among educated elite women in colonial Lagos, 1900/1920 -- Making the modern child in the era of imperial liberalism -- Setting up the welfare city: prelude to the Children and Young Person's Ordinance of 1943 -- The street hawker, the street walker, and the salvationist gaze -- Problem girls, private vice, and public secrets in Lagos -- Delinquents to breadwinners and hawkers to homemakers: gender, juvenile justice, and reform in the welfare city -- For women, girls, and the nation? the politics of girl saving in the era of anticolonial nationalism -- Conclusion: banning hawkers sixty years later.

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.

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