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The International African Library

Fashioning Futures

Uncertainty and Young Women's Livelihoods in Urban Nigeria

Juliet (University of Birmingham) Gilbert

Fashioning Futures

The International African Library

Fashioning Futures

Uncertainty and Young Women's Livelihoods in Urban Nigeria

The International African Library: Fashioning Futures

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Through vibrant ethnographic storytelling, this study reveals how young women capitalise on uncertainty in urban Nigeria to realise respectable futures. Moving from the house to church, sewing shops and beauty salons, Juliet Gilbert explores how these women fashion themselves in a city shaped by Pentecostal fervour and patriarchal conservatism.

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Beschrijving The International African Library: Fashioning Futures

Through vibrant ethnographic storytelling, this study reveals how young women capitalise on uncertainty in urban Nigeria to realise respectable futures. Moving from the house to church, sewing shops and beauty salons, Juliet Gilbert explores how these women fashion themselves in a city shaped by Pentecostal fervour and patriarchal conservatism.

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9781009618564
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304
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The International African Library
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Algemene sociale wetenschappen
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1
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Paperback
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Engels
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