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Chadian Sister Engages Kansas City Youth about Peace and Justice / by Londadjim, Nelkem Jeannette

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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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The impact of global drug policy on women : shifting the needle /

Table of Contents: “…Prelims -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: International drug policy in context -- Chapter 2: Gendering drug policy -- Chapter 3: Women and the politics of pleasure in critical drug studies -- Chapter 4: Fiona's story -- Chapter 5: Nexus of risk: the co-occurring problems of gender-based violence, HIV and drug use among women and adolescent girls -- Chapter 6: Risk behaviours among older women who use drugs -- Chapter 7: Women who use drugs and mental health -- Chapter 8: Access barriers to health services for women who use drugs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia -- Chapter 9: Suzanne's story -- Chapter 10: Sex work, justice and decriminalisation: beyond a politics of recognition in promoting a social justice response to women at the margins -- Chapter 11: Women incarcerated for drug-related offences: a Latin American perspective -- Chapter 12: Policing and sentencing practices in Russia and their impacts on women who use drugs -- Chapter 13: Women, drug policy and the Kenyan prison system -- Chapter 14: Drug policy and women prisoners in Southeast Asia -- Chapter 15: The increase in women who use drugs in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 16: Women as actors in the drug economy -- Chapter 17: Women's involvement in organised crime and drug trafficking: a comparative analysis of the Sinaloa and Yamaguchi-gumi organisations -- Chapter 18: From the Colombian Coca Fields: peasant women amid the war on drugs -- Chapter 19: 'Las Empoderadas' women coca growers building territorial peace -- Chapter 20: Unseen and unheard: the women in Duterte's war on drugs -- Chapter 21: Happy's story -- Chapter 22: Overdose risks and prevention strategies for pregnant women in New York City -- Chapter 23: Patterns of recreational drug use and harm reduction strategies among women at music festivals: the case of Hungary and Poland -- Chapter 24: Queer feminine identities and the war on drugs -- Chapter 25: Best practices in reaching 'hidden' populations and harm reduction service provision -- Chapter 26: A mother's story -- Chapter 27: Drug users as stakeholders in drug policy: questions of legitimacy and the silencing of the happy drug user -- Chapter 28: Improving drug policy metrics and advancements in measuring gender-based drug policy outcomes -- Chapter 29: Towards an abolitionist drug policy reform -- Chapter 30: Women who use drugs: resistance and rebellion -- References -- Index.…”
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Insurgent Testimonies : Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature / by Rizzuto, Nicole M.

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Insurgent Testimonies : Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature / by Rizzuto, Nicole M.

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River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads by Carr, Claudia J.

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Africa and World War II /

Table of Contents: “…Colonial subjects and imperial armies -- The military, race and resistance: the conundrums of recruiting Black South African men during the Second World War / Louis Grundlingh (University of Johannesburg) -- The Moroccan "effort de guerre" in World War II / Driss Maghraoui (Al Akhawayn University) -- Free to coerce: forced labor during and after the Vichy years in French West Africa / Catherine Bogosian Ash (Wayne State University) -- No country fit for heroes: the plight of disabled Kenyan veterans / Timothy Parsons (Washington University in St. …”
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Kenya book of records.