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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... 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 At the end of this century it has ...
... stories of grounded everyday moralities in resolving ethical dilemmas and search out the ways in which many of these issues now figure on a global stage. My aim is simply to introduce a range of ideas about change, intimacies, and ...
... stories” of all kinds rather than through abstract principles. It is concerned with grounded or concrete moralities and with the function of narrative in public life—its makings, its workings, and its uses. I turn to all this in ...
... story” of the world. Yet, the very fragility of these traditions can ironically lead them to adopt stronger and stronger positions, to claim more and more authority, generating a powerful sense of tribal fundamentalisms over lives ...
... stories and images of intimacy, along with debates over questions of intimacy. On television, for example, these range from the soap-opera tales of sex and family found in Friends (new ways of living together) and Sex in the City (New ...
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 |