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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... public sphere is being radically redrawn in the twenty-first century. The phrase “intimate citizenship” senses the crucial role of pluralism and conflict along with the need for dialogue across opposing positions. I highlight the ...
Private Decisions and Public Dialogues Ken Plummer. freezing of embryos for ... sphere. This book is broadly concerned with intimacies, a term often heard ... sphere: rape and abuse, issues central to the women's movement across the world ...
Private Decisions and Public Dialogues Ken Plummer. Stanko's use of the term ... sphere of “inmost” relationships with self and others. Intimacies are not ... public language of “intimate troubles” is emerging around issues of intimacy ...
... public spheres. Citizenship emerges in the public sphere(s); intimacy, in the private. If “intimate citizenship”seems an oxymoron, it also suggests a potential bridge between the personal and the political. Chapter 5 discusses the new ...
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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 |