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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... babies and cybersex to lesbian and gay marriages and families and single parenting) and the emerging arenas of public debate that are forming around them. For many people in the late modern world, there are decisions that can, and ...
... babies, I just thought it was the best sex in the world. I just thought it was more intimate, you throw away all the barriers; there was something about it that was just extra loving and special to me. And you lie back and think that a ...
... babies and “designer children,” elective plastic surgery, cybersex and safer sex, along with transgender and bisexual politics—all these have become part of an “issues culture” of public debate that was largely unimaginable just fifty ...
... babies”—struggles over the new reproductive technologies or assisted conceptions. Here we enter into controversies around surrogate motherhood, test-tube babies, and the whole paraphernalia of in-vitro fertilization, egg donation ...
... babies and their parents were questioned for more than an hour. Guardian, January 3, 2000 “Parents Create Baby to ... Babies on Internet to Be Outlawed” The sale of babies on the internet is to be banned under new laws proposed this week ...
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 |