Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi /

Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi /

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Main Author: Spronk, Rachel
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Yuppies > Sexual behavior > Kenya > Nairobi.
Sexology > Kenya > Nairobi.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Hip and ambitious in Nairobi
  • Conceiving sexuality
  • Interfaces of pleasure and anxiety
  • Structure of the book
  • The study of sexuality
  • Sexuality research in Kenya
  • Health approaches to sexuality
  • Sexuality research in the context of AIDS in Africa
  • The dynamics of sexuality: the focus of this study
  • Anthropology and sexuality
  • The social construction of sexuality, and its limits
  • Sex as embodied experience
  • Historicising sexuality
  • Methodological aspects of sexuality research
  • Researching sex and sexuality: research places and practices
  • Researching sex and sexuality: collection and validity of data
  • An unmarried with partner, non-Kenyan, white female young professional
  • Young professionals: emblems of social transformation
  • Sexuality and societal transformations
  • Gender and sexuality in colonial times
  • Gender and sexuality in postcolonial times
  • Social transformation and moral anxiety
  • The young and ambitious in Nairobi
  • Classifying young professionals
  • Hesitations about ethnicity and issues of belonging
  • Living independently and single
  • Nightlife and dating
  • Young urban professionals and the formation of a contemporary identity
  • Explorers of a modern identity
  • Young professionals' position towards customary ways of living
  • 'Westernization'
  • Africanness
  • Conclusion
  • Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS
  • AIDS as a context of life
  • Africanist perspectives on AIDS and sexuality
  • Policies of the government and nongovernmental organizations
  • The definition of 'risk groups'
  • The medicalization of sexuality
  • Christian perceptions of AIDS and sexuality
  • The remoralization of sexuality
  • Sexuality and contemporary lifestyles
  • AIDS as the disease of 'immorality'
  • The public emergence of the intimate
  • Intimacy as part of lifestyle
  • Conclusion
  • Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity
  • Female sexuality in Nairobi, Kenya and beyond
  • Pamela, Martha, Njeri, Tayiani and Dorcas
  • The importance of dating
  • 'Playing hard to get'
  • To give and to receive sexual pleasure
  • Chastity and the realization of sexual pleasure
  • Boundaries of sexual pleasure
  • Between sexual allure and limited availability
  • Appropriating sexual pleasure
  • Sexual pleasure and conventional expectations
  • Communicating ambiguity
  • Embodying transformations
  • Conclusion
  • Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches and masculinity
  • Male sexuality in Nairobi society, Kenya and beyond
  • Alex, Eric, Tom, Maurice and Ongeri
  • Men's sexual debut
  • Circumcision as constitutive to masculinity
  • Sex as a skill-being a 'good lover'
  • Love in relation to sexual drive
  • Sex and having 'arrived'
  • Moving between sexual prowess and restrained potency
  • Sexual desire as a physical craving
  • Balancing too much and too little sex
  • The waning dominant patriarchal ideology
  • Accommodating change
  • Conclusion
  • Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love
  • Romantic love and the twin spheres of consumption and mass media
  • Representing romantic love: films, television and advertisements
  • Television
  • Advertising
  • The privileging of the image
  • The manifestations of romantic love: music
  • Practicing romantic love: dating
  • Practices of mediation: magazines
  • The therapeutic discourse on relationships
  • Sign of the times: imaginations and practices of romantic love versus 'Westernization', or the perils of modernity
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures
  • Researching sexuality in Africa
  • The pleasures and anxieties of sexuality
  • Middle-class lifestyles and self-perceptions
  • Sex and sophistication - self and embodiment.

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