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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... raise concerns about teen sexuality and even about sexually active children.3 There is also the international commercialization of sex in which millions of men, women, and even children earn their living by performing live sex acts. And ...
... raised 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.
... raises the issue of the links between the private and 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 ...
... raise issues of global intimacies through their many and varied experiences, whether these relate to international sex tourism or to new migrating families. At the heart of this discussion is the suggestion that we are on the brink of a ...
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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 |