Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late ModernityOpen University Press, 2002 - 152 pages This volume brings together recent sociology of late modernity, particularly sociologies of reflexivity, aesthetics and detraditionalization, with a consideration of transformations of identity, especially transformations of gender and sexual identities. It does so in relation to questions of cultural economy; debates over the role and place of reflexivity in the social sciences; recent controversies over the significance of commodity aesthetics in regard to questions of identity; and debates on the significance of risk for the organization of contemporary sexualities. In so doing it puts forward a distinctive thesis, namely that within late modernity gender and sexuality are being reworked in terms of categories of reflexivity and risk. It shows that this reworking places increasing significance on issues of mobility and identity in late modernity. It therefore outlines the politics of mobility in regard to identity, suggesting that mobility is an important but often neglected source of power in late modernity. |
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... ( McDowell 1997 : 298 ) , an influence which is under- stood to take expression in the increasing emphasis on appearance , image and a style at work , indeed in the ways that stylized workplace performances increasingly secure rewards ...
... ( McDowell 1997 : 298 ) , an influence which is under- stood to take expression in the increasing emphasis on appearance , image and a style at work , indeed in the ways that stylized workplace performances increasingly secure rewards ...
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... McDowell argues in relation to gender . Indeed they suggest that such aesthetic reflexivity is linked not to a simple dispersal of differences but to their reworking . In the next section I take up this latter point in a consideration ...
... McDowell argues in relation to gender . Indeed they suggest that such aesthetic reflexivity is linked not to a simple dispersal of differences but to their reworking . In the next section I take up this latter point in a consideration ...
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... McDowell . For example , while white male characters in more recent Blaxploitation films are mobile in relation to ... McDowell's study ' take on ' various aesthetics of gender , are attributed with reflexivity in relation to gender ...
... McDowell . For example , while white male characters in more recent Blaxploitation films are mobile in relation to ... McDowell's study ' take on ' various aesthetics of gender , are attributed with reflexivity in relation to gender ...
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new sociological directions and feminist sociological controversies | 13 |
the aestheticization of everyday life | 21 |
merely cultural | 27 |
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