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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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Writing in Limbo : Modernism and Caribbean Literature / by Gikandi, Simon

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Anatomy of a Civil War : Sociopolitical Impacts of the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey / by Gurses, Mehmet

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Jane Austen among Women / by Kaplan, Deborah, 1950-

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Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945–1960 / by Holcombe, Alec

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Public opinion in state politics

Table of Contents: “…Cohen and James D. King -- Ideological cleavage, political competition, and policy making in the American states / by Charles J. …”
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Courts in Latin America

Table of Contents: “…From quietism to incipient activism: the institutional and ideological roots of rights adjudication in Chile Lisa Hilbink and Javier Couso; 5. …”
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Animating Film Theory /

Table of Contents: “…/ Gertrud Koch; translated by Daniel Hendrickson -- Frame shot : Vertov's ideologies of animation / Mihaela Mihailova and John MacKay -- Signatures of motion : Len Lye's scratch films and the energy of the line / Andrew R. …”
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Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University / by Hampton, Rosalind, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Naming Race and Racism ; "I Didn't Know I Was Black" ; Black Canadian "Identity Problems" ; Managing Interlocking Stereotype Threats ; Construction Work ; Black as in Radical, Radical as in Rooted ; Community and Communing ; Conclusion: Navigating and Resisting Racialization and Colonial Ideology -- 6. Academic Service and Resistance within the Neoliberal University ; "Diversity and Equity" Work ; Hiring Committees ; The Africana Studies Committee ; Conclusion: Towards Informed Decision Making ; Final Thoughts ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.…”
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Public opinion in state politics

Table of Contents: “…Cohen and James D. King -- Ideological cleavage, political competition, and policy making in the American states / by Charles J. …”
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Courts in Latin America

Table of Contents: “…From quietism to incipient activism: the institutional and ideological roots of rights adjudication in Chile Lisa Hilbink and Javier Couso; 5. …”
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Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University / by Hampton, Rosalind, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Naming Race and Racism ; "I Didn't Know I Was Black" ; Black Canadian "Identity Problems" ; Managing Interlocking Stereotype Threats ; Construction Work ; Black as in Radical, Radical as in Rooted ; Community and Communing ; Conclusion: Navigating and Resisting Racialization and Colonial Ideology -- 6. Academic Service and Resistance within the Neoliberal University ; "Diversity and Equity" Work ; Hiring Committees ; The Africana Studies Committee ; Conclusion: Towards Informed Decision Making ; Final Thoughts ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.…”
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Animating Film Theory /

Table of Contents: “…/ Gertrud Koch; translated by Daniel Hendrickson -- Frame shot : Vertov's ideologies of animation / Mihaela Mihailova and John MacKay -- Signatures of motion : Len Lye's scratch films and the energy of the line / Andrew R. …”
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The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926 / by Coopersmith, Jonathan, 1955-

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The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926 / by Coopersmith, Jonathan, 1955-

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Technocrats of the Imagination : Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde / by Beck, John, 1963-, Bishop, Ryan, 1959-

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Technocrats of the Imagination : Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde / by Beck, John, 1963-, Bishop, Ryan, 1959-

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Contemporary archaeologies of the Southwest

Table of Contents: “…Venzor -- Materialities of place : ideologies on the Chacoan landscape / Ruth M. Van Dyke -- Procurement and landscape : lithic quarries as places / Christine G. …”
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Contemporary archaeologies of the Southwest

Table of Contents: “…Venzor -- Materialities of place : ideologies on the Chacoan landscape / Ruth M. Van Dyke -- Procurement and landscape : lithic quarries as places / Christine G. …”
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Irish Literature Since 1990 : Diverse Voices /

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