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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... 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 made about a life ...
... marriage, child marriage, arranged marriages, and forced marriages, but they increasingly meet with resistance from the participants, and alongside traditional marriages we find a proliferation of new “families of choice.” “Intimate ...
... marriages may have quite a long history, and families of the past were also governed by complex and varied relationships. And the panics and debates about moral and personal life have surely been recurrent themes at least of the modern ...
... 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.
... marriages, and friendships, in child bearing and child rearing, and in caring for others. In these instances, intimacy is likely to have close links to particular kinds of gender, body projects, and feeling work.14 Bodies, feelings ...
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 |