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Rachel Spronk, Ambiguous Pleasures: sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 0 85745 478 2; pb US$34.95/£27.95 – 978 1 78238 530 1). 2012/2014, xi + 310 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2020

Julia Pauli
Julia Pauli*
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Africa , Volume 90 , Issue 3 , May 2020 , pp. 591 - 593
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