Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi /
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2012.
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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.