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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... reproductive technologies or assisted conceptions. Here we enter into controversies around surrogate motherhood, test-tube babies, and the whole paraphernalia of in-vitro fertilization, egg donation, artificial insemination by donor ...
... reproductive technologies or cybersex, for example—many of them have long and tangled roots in the past. The new is often not as new as we like to think. Sex work—or prostitution—may be “the oldest profession,” same-sex marriages may ...
Private Decisions and Public Dialogues Ken Plummer. The. tales of “new reproduction” that introduce this chapter represent ... reproductive technologies are only one of many such sets of changes. The idea of “intimate citizenship” has been ...
... reproductive technologies with their capacity for revolutionizing reproduction. The link between body and reproduction has been broken. Indeed, we have reached the ironic stage in history when much sexual activity—from masturbation and ...
... reproductive capacity but rather on the choices we make between destruction ... technologies, the homogenization of culture, and the weakening of the ... reproductive rights. I will return to all this in Chapter 8. 5. Intimacies. and.
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 |