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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... conflicts developing around changes. Chapter 3 provides examples of the “culture wars.” Some of the conflicts outlined there seem to generate irreconcilable positions and lead almost to tribal warfare. Both conflict and change hence ...
... conflict along with the need for dialogue across opposing positions. I highlight the importance of stories of grounded everyday moralities in resolving ethical dilemmas and search out the ways in which many of these issues now figure on ...
... conflicts. Doing. Intimacies. What all these problems have in common is that they reside in what I will call the intimate sphere. This book is broadly concerned with intimacies, a term often heard these days. It does, however, mean many ...
... conflicts over ways of doing intimacy in the postmodern world. I will consider possible ways of finding “values in a godless world,” or at least ways to appreciate the politics surrounding these new choices and changes.15 I make no ...
... conflicts, and exploitation or a utopian one in which human-rights regimes will foster a wider order of world citizenship. Here we can start to look at the global public discourses around intimacies. In this chapter I have established ...
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 |