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

Name: Fashioning Futures : Uncertainty and Young Women's Livelihoods in Urban Nigeria
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Fashioning FuturesUncertainty and Young Women's Livelihoods in Urban Nigeria\nAuthor(s): Juliet Gilbert\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009618564, 978-1009618564\nSynopsis\nThrough vibrant ethnographic storytelling, this study reveals how young women capitalise on uncertainty in Calabar, southeastern Nigeria, to realise respectable futures. Exploring young women's daily activities across different sites from the house to church, sewing shops and beauty salons, Fashioning Futures examines the complex ways in which various forms of uncertainty permeate life in a city shaped by Pentecostal fervour and patriarchal conservatism. Juliet Gilbert demonstrates how young women actively engage with forms of uncertainty such as illusion, dissimulation and fakery to present themselves as respectable urbanites and work towards marriage. Revealing young women's centrality in the construction of urban lifewo.