Ambiguous Pleasures : : Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi / / Rachel Spronk.
Among both male and female young urban professionals in Nairobi, sexuality is a key to achieving a ‘modern’ identity. These young men and women see themselves as the avant garde of a new Africa, while they also express the recurring worry of how to combine an ‘African’ identity with the new lifestyl...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter I: The study of sexuality
- Chapter II: Young professionals: emblems of social transformation
- Chapter III: Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS
- Chapter IV: Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity
- Chapter V: Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches, and masculinity
- Chapter VI: Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love
- Chapter VII: Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures
- Bibliography
- Index