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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780857454799
035 _a(DE-B1597)636714
035 _a(OCoLC)799999351
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082 0 4 _a306.7086220967625
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSpronk, Rachel
_eautore
245 1 0 _aAmbiguous Pleasures :
_bSexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi /
_cRachel Spronk.
264 1 _aNew York ;
_aOxford :
_bBerghahn Books,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c©2012
300 _a1 online resource (322 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter I: The study of sexuality --
_tChapter II: Young professionals: emblems of social transformation --
_tChapter III: Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS --
_tChapter IV: Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity --
_tChapter V: Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches, and masculinity --
_tChapter VI: Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love --
_tChapter VII: Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aAmong both male and female young urban professionals in Nairobi, sexuality is a key to achieving a ‘modern’ identity. These young men and women see themselves as the avant garde of a new Africa, while they also express the recurring worry of how to combine an ‘African’ identity with the new lifestyles with which they are experimenting. By focusing on public debates and their preoccupations with issues of African heritage, gerontocratic power relations and conventional morality on the one hand, and personal sexual relationships, intimacy and self-perceptions on the other, this study works out the complexities of sexuality and culture in the context of modernity in an African society. It moves beyond an investigation of a health or development perspective of sexuality and instead examines desire, pleasure and eroticism, revealing new insights into the methodology and theory of the study of sexuality within the social sciences. Sexuality serves as a prism for analysing how social developments generate new notions of self in postcolonial Kenya and is a crucial component towards understanding the way people recognize and deal with modern changes in their personal lives.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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653 _aAnthropology (General), Gender Studies and Sexuality, Sociology.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780857454799
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857454799
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