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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Private Decisions and Public Dialogues Ken Plummer. intimate citizenship Private Decisions and Public Dialogues Ken Plummer The Earl and Edna Stice Lecture-Book Series in Social Science. Front Cover.
Private Decisions and Public Dialogues Ken Plummer. Intimate Citizenship Private Decisions and Public Dialogues KEN PLUMMER university of washington press Seattle & London The Stice Lectureship was established through a generous bequest of.
... Intimate citizenship : private decisions and public debate / Ken Plummer. p. cm.— (The Earl and Edna Stice lecture ... Intimacy (Psychology) I. Title. II. Series. hq2042.p58 2003 303.4—dc21 2003046765 The paper used in this publication ...
... 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 ...
... intimate citizenship.I suggest some of the major controversies surrounding the use of such a term and go on to claim that a newish form of doing citizenship is in the making. Four themes provide the framework for the rest of the book ...
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 |