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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... 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 At the end of this century it has for the Contents.
... everyday moralities in resolving ethical dilemmas and search out the ways in which many of these issues now figure on a global stage. My aim is simply to introduce a range of ideas about change, intimacies, and politics—many of which ...
... every day brings its new “troubles.” We are supposed to be living in an era that has witnessed the demoralization of society, the spread of urban decay, the rise of crime and brutal inequalities, and the decline of civility. Demon sex ...
... everyday life, even as technological growth speeds up. On the other hand, intimate relations become forms of life increasingly trapped within wider bureaucratizing and commercializing forces: human relations are subject to what has been ...
... everyday life.” Hence a good relationship in the late modern world is: . A relationship of equals, in which each party has equal rights and obligations; . A relationship in which each person has respect for, and wants the best for, the ...
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 |