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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... value of single parenting; the legitimacy—moral and legal—of lesbian and gay partnerships, marriages, adoptions, and child rearing; the value of living alone and of adult friendships; and the widespread acceptance of divorce, out-of ...
... values in a godless world,” or at least ways to appreciate the politics surrounding these new choices and changes.15 I make no grand claims, but I do believe that a new language is evolving at the start of the twenty-first century—dim ...
... values The body How to treat our bodies with respect, how to cope with illness Emotional life How to acknowledge and express what we feel The senses How to pay attention to tastes, smells, sights, sounds, and physical sensations ...
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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 |