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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... lesbian and gay marriages and families and single parenting) and the emerging arenas of public debate that are forming around them. For many people in the late modern world, there are decisions that can, and increasingly have to, be ...
... Lesbians and gays can enter into registered partnerships and become parents. Younger people can be more experimental with their sexualities. Women have gained some measure of autonomy over their bodies and their lives. Older people are ...
... lesbian and gay partnerships, marriages, adoptions, and child rearing; the value of living alone and of adult friendships; and the widespread acceptance of divorce, out-of- wedlock conception, cohabitation, and remarriage. And with ...
... lesbian daddies, dyke boys, drag kings, and transgender warriors are put on the agenda! “Intimate troubles” and “choices” around infertility, giving birth, and “designer babies”—struggles over the new reproductive technologies or ...
... lesbian and gay movement exist worldwide and carry on debates about intimacies; major international organizations have been established to fight HIV / AIDS; worldwide political organizations such as the United Nations discuss global ...
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 |