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Ambiguous Pleasures - Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi (Paperback)
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Ambiguous Pleasures - Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi (Paperback)
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Among 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.
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