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. |
From inside the book
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... Lives in a Late Modern World 17 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 ...
... lives become matters of social actions located in historical moments (time) and practices bound into specific places and “habitus” (space). Our very feelings, bodies, sexualities, and ways of thinking take on different patterns under ...
... lives and that future generations may well come to live in a very different world. Indeed, just as my great-grandparents would find the world I now live in to be one of truly amazing changes, so suspect that upcoming genI erations will ...
... live simultaneously in traditional, modern, and postmodern worlds! Once again, it took a sabbatical term in Santa Barbara for me to be able to finish the book, and I thank the university and the sociology department there for their ...
... live in an age in which the social order of the national state, class, ethnicity and the traditional family is in decline. The ethics of individual self-fulfillment and achievement is the most powerful current in modern society. 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 |