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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... intimacies and inequalities, such as class, ethnicity, gender, and age. My own concern in this book lies with the seemingly rapid changes that are taking place across the world in the personal life (from test tube babies and cybersex to ...
... intimacies, and politics—many of which are not in themselves new, but which have not been placed together like this before. Although the ideas have had a long gestation,6they remain provisional and will benefit from some refinement. A ...
... intimacies is minimal. Modern intimacies have emerged over the past two hundred years or so and have become enmeshed in the many features of modernity already familiar to social scientists: capitalism, urbanism, anomie ...
... by cyberspace go on and on. And so, I suggest, it is for all of our changing intimacies as we enter a late modern world. As we move from “gay marriages” to the freezing of embryos for use in later life and on intimate troubles 11.
... 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 different things ...
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 |