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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... called upon here that traditional modes of life , interaction and organization are being challenged and destabilized - may be paralleled to the more general and classical view that the onward march of modernity is destructive or incites ...
... called upon here that traditional modes of life , interaction and organization are being challenged and destabilized - may be paralleled to the more general and classical view that the onward march of modernity is destructive or incites ...
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... called into question by the former , monitored and perhaps even corrected . ( Beck 1994 : 11 ) This proliferation of knowledges regarding risk and of ' risks ' themselves means risk society is also one characterized by uncertainty ...
... called into question by the former , monitored and perhaps even corrected . ( Beck 1994 : 11 ) This proliferation of knowledges regarding risk and of ' risks ' themselves means risk society is also one characterized by uncertainty ...
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... called low risk group ' ( 1997 : 10 ) . Nevertheless , Van de Ven et al . suggest on the basis of their findings that ' a great deal of their testing was done for good reasons ... HIV testing among heterosexual tertiary students is ...
... called low risk group ' ( 1997 : 10 ) . Nevertheless , Van de Ven et al . suggest on the basis of their findings that ' a great deal of their testing was done for good reasons ... HIV testing among heterosexual tertiary students is ...
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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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