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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... concept of community, the purpose of government, and epistemology. The lectureship rotates among seven social science departments: Sociology, Geography, Political Science, Women Studies, Philosophy, Communications, and History. In 2002 ...
... concept to deal with such problems: intimate citizenship.I suggest some of the major controversies surrounding the use of such a term and go on to claim that a newish form of doing citizenship is in the making. Four themes provide the ...
... concept, one that is not meant to be tight and operational, but open and suggestive.16 I use the notion of intimate citizenship to hint at worlds in the making, worlds in which a public language of “intimate troubles” is emerging around ...
... concept of intimate citizenship can help to suggest ways of doing the personal and intimate life. As I suggested in an earlier book, intimate citizenship looks at “the decisions people have to make over the control (or not) over one's ...
... concept of intimate citizenship also raises the issue of the links between the private and public spheres. Citizenship emerges in the public sphere(s); intimacy, in the private. If “intimate citizenship”seems an oxymoron, it also ...
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 |