Ambiguous pleasures
Subtitle: sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi
By: Rachel Spronk
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780857454782; 9780857454799
Subjects: Yuppies; Sexual behavior; Sexology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Hip and ambitious in Nairobi; title: Conceiving sexuality; title: Interfaces of pleasure and anxiety; title: Structure of the book; title: The study of sexuality; title: Sexuality research in Kenya; title: Health approaches to sexuality; title: Sexuality research in the context of AIDS in Africa; title: The dynamics of sexuality: the focus of this study; title: Anthropology and sexuality; title: The social construction of sexuality, and its limits; title: Sex as embodied experience; title: Historicising sexuality; title: Methodological aspects of sexuality research; title: Researching sex and sexuality: research places and practices; title: Researching sex and sexuality: collection and validity of data; title: An unmarried with partner, non-Kenyan, white female young professional; title: Young professionals: emblems of social transformation; title: Sexuality and societal transformations; title: Gender and sexuality in colonial times; title: Gender and sexuality in postcolonial times; title: Social transformation and moral anxiety; title: The young and ambitious in Nairobi; title: Classifying young professionals; title: Hesitations about ethnicity and issues of belonging; title: Living independently and single; title: Nightlife and dating; title: Young urban professionals and the formation of a contemporary identity; title: Explorers of a modern identity; title: Young professionals' position towards customary ways of living; title: 'Westernization'; title: Africanness; title: Conclusion; title: Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS; title: AIDS as a context of life; title: Africanist perspectives on AIDS and sexuality; title: Policies of the government and nongovernmental organizations; title: The definition of 'risk groups'; title: The medicalization of sexuality; title: Christian perceptions of AIDS and sexuality; title: The remoralization of sexuality; title: Sexuality and contemporary lifestyles; title: AIDS as the disease of 'immorality'; title: The public emergence of the intimate; title: Intimacy as part of lifestyle; title: Conclusion; title: Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity; title: Female sexuality in Nairobi, Kenya and beyond; title: Pamela, Martha, Njeri, Tayiani and Dorcas; title: The importance of dating; title: 'Playing hard to get'; title: To give and to receive sexual pleasure; title: Chastity and the realization of sexual pleasure; title: Boundaries of sexual pleasure; title: Between sexual allure and limited availability; title: Appropriating sexual pleasure; title: Sexual pleasure and conventional expectations; title: Communicating ambiguity; title: Embodying transformations; title: Conclusion; title: Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches and masculinity; title: Male sexuality in Nairobi society, Kenya and beyond; title: Alex, Eric, Tom, Maurice and Ongeri; title: Men's sexual debut; title: Circumcision as constitutive to masculinity; title: Sex as a skill-being a 'good lover'; title: Love in relation to sexual drive; title: Sex and having 'arrived'; title: Moving between sexual prowess and restrained potency; title: Sexual desire as a physical craving; title: Balancing too much and too little sex; title: The waning dominant patriarchal ideology; title: Accommodating change; title: Conclusion; title: Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love; title: Romantic love and the twin spheres of consumption and mass media; title: Representing romantic love: films, television and advertisements; title: Television; title: Advertising; title: The privileging of the image; title: The manifestations of romantic love: music; title: Practicing romantic love: dating; title: Practices of mediation: magazines; title: The therapeutic discourse on relationships; title: Sign of the times: imaginations and practices of romantic love versus 'Westernization', or the perils of modernity; title: Conclusion; title: Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures; title: Researching sexuality in Africa; title: The pleasures and anxieties of sexuality; title: Middle-class lifestyles and self-perceptions; title: Sex and sophistication - self and embodiment.