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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... choice is not between throwing away rules previously developed and sticking obstinately by them. The intelligent alternative is to revise, adapt, expand and alter them. The problem is one of continuous vital readaptation. John Dewey ...
... choices. I do not want to overstate the changes, but I do believe the force of evidence is enough to suggest that something powerful is going on in our personal lives and that future generations may well come to live in a very different ...
... choice; in the land of individual freedom of choice the option to escape individualization and to refuse to participate in the individualizing process is emphatically not on the agenda. Zygmunt Bauman, The Individualized Society We live ...
... choices concerning families, gender, bodies, identities, and sexualities hitherto unknown in human history. The ... choice to live their lives in real 4 intimate troubles.
... choice.” “Intimate troubles” and “choices” around sexuality. Not only have matters of so-called sexual orientation and sexual preference been placed firmly on the agenda by the lesbian and gay movement; so, too, have a string of ...
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 |