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. |
From inside the book
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... 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 ...
... contested. Can we find some sense of the universal, however provisional, on which we can agree in a time of such rapid change and, for some, social disintegration? Or does it even matter? In the following two chapters we will look at ...
... contested nature of intimacies. Throughout the zones of intimacy, multiple voices are asserting strongly differing points of view. How will we survive in the future if there is no agreement—when we indeed live in a world of deep ...
... contested.In this and the following chapter, I seek to establish the need for such an idea and show how the notion of intimate citizenship speaks to a new public language of change and conflict. The. Slow. Collapse. of. the. Grand.
... the wider dystopian picture is not ignored. Major conflicts are everywhere, and I will return to this dark side of intimacies regularly. 3 Culture Wars and Contested Intimacies They stick something up 32 postmodern intimacies.
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 |