Fashioning Futures : Uncertainty and Young Women's Livelihoods in Urban Nigeria

Omtale

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.