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Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi / by Spronk, Rachel

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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Colonial caring : A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing /

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Russia's Turn to the East Domestic Policymaking and Regional Cooperation /

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Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi / by Spronk, Rachel

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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Colonial caring : A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing /

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Cancer disparities causes and evidence-based solutions /

Table of Contents: “…Olipade, and Margaret K. Offermann -- Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in cancer incidence, stage, survival, and mortality in the U.S. / Jiemin Ma, Rebecca Siegel, and Ahmedin Jemal -- Disparities in cancer risk factors and cancer screening in the U.S. / Vilma Cokkinides ... …”
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Cancer disparities causes and evidence-based solutions /

Table of Contents: “…Olipade, and Margaret K. Offermann -- Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in cancer incidence, stage, survival, and mortality in the U.S. / Jiemin Ma, Rebecca Siegel, and Ahmedin Jemal -- Disparities in cancer risk factors and cancer screening in the U.S. / Vilma Cokkinides ... …”
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Religion and social justice for immigrants

Table of Contents: “…Nawyn ; The Catholic Church's institutional responses to immigration : from supranational to local engagement / Margarita Mooney -- Theology, redemption, and justice. Beyond ethnic and national imagination : toward a Catholic theology of U.S. immigration / Gioacchino Campese ; Caodai exile and redemption : a new Vietnamese religion's struggle for identity / Janet Hoskins.…”
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A casebook of family interventions for psychosis

Table of Contents: “….] -- A case of family intervention with a "high EE" family / Juliana Onwumere, Ben Smith & Elizabeth Kuipers -- Coming to terms with mental illness is the family : working constructively through its grief / Virginia Lafond -- Interventions with siblings / Jo Smith, Gráinne Fadden & Michelle O'Shea -- Family intervention with ethnically and culturally diverse groups / Juliana Onwumere, Ben Smith & Elizabeth Kuipers -- Multiple family groups in early psychosis : a brief psychoeducational and therapeutic intervention / David Glentworth -- Meeting the needs of families on inpatient units / Chris Mansell & Gráinne Fadden -- Setting up a family intervention (FI) service : a UK case study / Frank Burbach & Roger Stanbridge -- Overcoming barriers to staff offering family interventions in the NHS / Gráinne Fadden -- The COOL approach / Claudia Benzies, Gwen Butcher & Tom Linton.…”
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The Yoruba diaspora in the Atlantic world

Table of Contents: “…Lovejoy -- The enslavement of Yoruba / Ann O'Hear -- Nagô and Mina : the Yoruba diaspora in Brazil / João José Reis and Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian -- The Yoruba in Cuba : origins, identities, and transformations / Michele Reid -- Africans in a colony of creoles : the Yoruba in colonial Costa Rica / Russell Lohse -- Yoruba in the British Caribbean : a comparative perspective on Trinidad and the Bahamas / Rosalyn Howard -- The influential Yoruba past in Haiti / Kevin Roberts -- The "nagôization" process in Bahian candomblé / Luis Nicolau Parés -- Santería in Cuba : tradition and transformation / Christine Ayorinde -- From Gbe to Yoruba : ethnic change and the Mina nation in Rio de Janeiro / Mariza C. …”
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British and Irish emigrants and exiles in Europe, 1603-1688

Table of Contents: “…Community, commodity and commerce: the Stockholm-Scots in the seventeenth century / Steve Murdoch -- Scoti, cives cracovienses: their ethnic and social identity, 1570-1660 / Waldemar Kowalski -- Fortress Rotterdam? …”
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The Civil War as global conflict : transnational meanings of the American Civil War /

Table of Contents: “…Rugemer -- King Cotton, emperor slavery : antebellum slaveholders and the world economy / Matthew Karp -- "If it is still impossible to advocate slavery it has become a habit persistently to write down freedom" : Britain, the Civil War, and race / Hugh Dubrulle -- "Two irreconcilable peoples?" : ethnic nationalism in the Confederacy / James M. McPherson -- Proving their loyalty to the republic : English immigrants and the American Civil War / David T. …”
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The Yoruba diaspora in the Atlantic world

Table of Contents: “…Lovejoy -- The enslavement of Yoruba / Ann O'Hear -- Nagô and Mina : the Yoruba diaspora in Brazil / João José Reis and Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian -- The Yoruba in Cuba : origins, identities, and transformations / Michele Reid -- Africans in a colony of creoles : the Yoruba in colonial Costa Rica / Russell Lohse -- Yoruba in the British Caribbean : a comparative perspective on Trinidad and the Bahamas / Rosalyn Howard -- The influential Yoruba past in Haiti / Kevin Roberts -- The "nagôization" process in Bahian candomblé / Luis Nicolau Parés -- Santería in Cuba : tradition and transformation / Christine Ayorinde -- From Gbe to Yoruba : ethnic change and the Mina nation in Rio de Janeiro / Mariza C. …”
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British and Irish emigrants and exiles in Europe, 1603-1688

Table of Contents: “…Community, commodity and commerce: the Stockholm-Scots in the seventeenth century / Steve Murdoch -- Scoti, cives cracovienses: their ethnic and social identity, 1570-1660 / Waldemar Kowalski -- Fortress Rotterdam? …”
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The Civil War as global conflict : transnational meanings of the American Civil War /

Table of Contents: “…Rugemer -- King Cotton, emperor slavery : antebellum slaveholders and the world economy / Matthew Karp -- "If it is still impossible to advocate slavery it has become a habit persistently to write down freedom" : Britain, the Civil War, and race / Hugh Dubrulle -- "Two irreconcilable peoples?" : ethnic nationalism in the Confederacy / James M. McPherson -- Proving their loyalty to the republic : English immigrants and the American Civil War / David T. …”
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International Librarianship : Developing Professional, Intercultural, and Educational Leadership /

Table of Contents: “…Chao, Beth Evans, Ryan Phillips, Mark Aaron Polger, Beth Posner, Ellen Sexton -- Fulbright experiences -- Transcending ethnic, racial, and political conflict to achieve understanding between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot library communities / Constantia Constantinou -- The unfinished work : organizational democracy / John Lubans, Jr -- Librarians building digital learning objects supporting cultural understanding : Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad in Morocco and Tunisia / Michael J. …”
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Religion and social justice for immigrants

Table of Contents: “…Nawyn ; The Catholic Church's institutional responses to immigration : from supranational to local engagement / Margarita Mooney -- Theology, redemption, and justice. Beyond ethnic and national imagination : toward a Catholic theology of U.S. immigration / Gioacchino Campese ; Caodai exile and redemption : a new Vietnamese religion's struggle for identity / Janet Hoskins.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

A casebook of family interventions for psychosis

Table of Contents: “….] -- A case of family intervention with a "high EE" family / Juliana Onwumere, Ben Smith & Elizabeth Kuipers -- Coming to terms with mental illness is the family : working constructively through its grief / Virginia Lafond -- Interventions with siblings / Jo Smith, Gráinne Fadden & Michelle O'Shea -- Family intervention with ethnically and culturally diverse groups / Juliana Onwumere, Ben Smith & Elizabeth Kuipers -- Multiple family groups in early psychosis : a brief psychoeducational and therapeutic intervention / David Glentworth -- Meeting the needs of families on inpatient units / Chris Mansell & Gráinne Fadden -- Setting up a family intervention (FI) service : a UK case study / Frank Burbach & Roger Stanbridge -- Overcoming barriers to staff offering family interventions in the NHS / Gráinne Fadden -- The COOL approach / Claudia Benzies, Gwen Butcher & Tom Linton.…”
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International Librarianship : Developing Professional, Intercultural, and Educational Leadership /

Table of Contents: “…Chao, Beth Evans, Ryan Phillips, Mark Aaron Polger, Beth Posner, Ellen Sexton -- Fulbright experiences -- Transcending ethnic, racial, and political conflict to achieve understanding between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot library communities / Constantia Constantinou -- The unfinished work : organizational democracy / John Lubans, Jr -- Librarians building digital learning objects supporting cultural understanding : Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad in Morocco and Tunisia / Michael J. …”
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A taste of power : food and American identities / by Vester, Katharina

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