Intimate Citizenship: Private Decisions and Public DialoguesUniversity of Washington Press, 2011 M10 1 - 192 pages Solo parenting, in vitro fertilization, surrogate mothers, gay and lesbian families, cloning and the prospect of “designer babies,” Viagra and the morning-after pill, HIV/AIDS, the global porn industry, on-line dating services, virtual sex--whether for better of worse, our intimate lives are in the throes of dramatic change. In this thought-provoking study, sociologist Ken Plummer examines the transformations taking place in the realm of intimacy and the conflicts--the “intimate troubles”--to which these changes constantly give rise. In surveying the intimate possibilities now available to us and the issues swirling around them, Plummer focuses especially on the overlap of public and private. Increasingly, our most private decisions are bound up with public institutions such as legal codes, the medical system, or the media. |
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... argument, it is not a series of separate, disparate essays but an interconnected whole. It starts by establishing the range of changes surrounding the personal life that have been happening in the past few decades—most of which are ...
... argue that we are indeed moving into a radically new kind of social order. The titles of a spate of recent sociological studies soon give rise to a sense that something is afoot (apart from a publishing boom, perhaps). We have The ...
... argue that the Web is destroying society. The Web can certainly foster talk, in chat rooms and the like, but it can under certain circumstances also work its way into private zones such as bedrooms, sex dungeons, and even toilets ...
... argue that the world was never quite this simple anyway—though it has often been made to seem so.) A seemingly wider range of possibilities is now available. Whereas the traditional world was usually conceived of as a singular world ...
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Contents
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3 Culture Wars and Contested Intimacies | 33 |
4 The New Theories of Citizenship | 49 |
5 Public Intimacies Private Citizens | 67 |
6 Dialogic Citizenship | 84 |
7 Stories and the Grounded Moralities of Everyday Life | 95 |
8 Globalizing Intimate Citizenship | 117 |
9 The Intimate Citizenship Project | 139 |
Notes | 147 |
Bibliography | 163 |
Index of Names | 179 |
Subject Index | 183 |