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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... arenas are well known and much studied, such as gender and families. Others have started to be studied, such as emotions and bodies. Still others have hardly been noticed: most of the senses, for example—we ix Preface and Acknowledgments.
... gender, doing sex, doing relationships, doing bodies—and can show the links between intimacies and inequalities, such as class, ethnicity, gender, and age. My own concern in this book lies with the seemingly rapid changes that are ...
... gender revolution in relation to work and politics. Any attempt to create a new sense of social cohesion has to start from the recognition that individualism, diversity and skepticism are written into Western Culture. Ulrich Beck ...
... gender, bodies, identities, and sexualities hitherto unknown in human history. The infertile can turn to assisted conception. Lesbians and gays can enter into registered partnerships and become parents. Younger people can be more ...
... genders.These include not only the frequent breakdown of traditionally conceived notions of the masculine and the ... gender wars,” as men and women seem increasingly incapable of living with each other and as sexual violence seems to ...
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 |