"Intimacy Is the Name of the Game": Media and the Praxis of Sexual Knowledge in Nairobi
Keywords:
print media, sexuality, social transformations, embodiment, middle classAbstract
In the 1990s, new debates about sexuality emerged
in the Kenyan media. These debates are embedded in a larger
framework of personal aspirations and social transformations
regarding gender, sexuality and culture that are characteristic
of postcolonial Kenya. One group that embodies these trans-
formations in a particular way is young middle-class adults in
Nairobi. The focus of this article is on the presentation of sex-
uality and intimacy in print media, on the way people appro-
priate this knowledge, and how this interaction dovetails with the
way sexuality has become symbolic of being a contemporary, or
modern, person. The convergence between media and middle-
class formation shows how modern subjectivities are created,
embodied and naturalized.
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