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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... 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 ...
... citizen”? To answer this question, I focus in Chapter 4 on the many new meanings that have been given to the idea of citizenship in recent years. But the concept of intimate citizenship also raises the issue of the links between the ...
... citizens,” who raise issues of global intimacies through their many and varied experiences, whether these relate to international sex tourism or to new migrating families. At the heart of this discussion is the suggestion that we are on ...
... citizens. Postmodern troubles and postmodern choices do abound, and both may be signs of the future. They are worth looking at as long as the wider dystopian picture is not ignored. Major conflicts are everywhere, and I will return to ...
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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 |