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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... Sociology, Geography, Political Science, Women Studies, Philosophy, Communications, and History. In 2002, the governing committee of the Stice Lectureship decided to start publishing a series of short, introductory books based on the ...
... sociology posed a beguiling question. It simply asked me to discuss the proposition that “sociology is not interested in people.” I wrote my answer, attacking the claim, and soon learned that this was not what my tutors wanted to hear ...
... sociology of smells, sights, and sounds would look like (although a sense of this can be found in Norbert Elias's The Civilizing Process). For me, this is part of what might be called a critical humanism.2 A sociology of intimacy can ...
... Sociology Department, Trinity College, Dublin (special thanks to Hilary Tovey for inviting me); the International Sexuality Conference in Manchester, 1999 (special thanks to Gil Herdt, Gail Hawkes, and, as ever, Jeffrey Weeks, who ...
... sociology department there for their continuing hospitality. And, finally, I owe my biggest debt as usual to my own dear intimate partner of many years, Everard Longland. Ken Plummer Wivenhoe and Santa Barbara March 2003 Intimate ...
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 |