Ambiguous Pleasures: Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi

Among both male and female young urban professionals in Nairobi, sexuality is a key to achieving a...
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Author: Rachel Spronk
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Language: English
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Ambiguous Pleasures: Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi by Spronk, Rachel

Ambiguous Pleasures: Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi

€78,44

Ambiguous Pleasures: Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi

€78,44
Author: Rachel Spronk
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Rachel Spronk
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 10/01/2014
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9781782385301

About the Author
Spronk, Rachel: -

Rachel Spronk is Assistant Professor at the Sociology and Anthropology Department at the University of Amsterdam. She has published on intimacy and middle class formation in Kenya, on methodological questions of sexuality research and on the bounds of poststructural approaches to understand how sex(uality) is experienced.

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