Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late ModernityThis 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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While the politics of identity is so often understood as revealing the idea of solidarity for women to be problematic – assuming as it does a sameness of all women - Dean argues that the problems of essentialism and exclusion which have ...
While the politics of identity is so often understood as revealing the idea of solidarity for women to be problematic – assuming as it does a sameness of all women - Dean argues that the problems of essentialism and exclusion which have ...
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She suggests that Foucault's work provides both the backdrop and sets certain limits to the idea of self - consciously constituted identities found in theories of reflexive modernity . More specifically , McNay argues that the tension ...
She suggests that Foucault's work provides both the backdrop and sets certain limits to the idea of self - consciously constituted identities found in theories of reflexive modernity . More specifically , McNay argues that the tension ...
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Indeed , as I will go on to illustrate in Chapter 3 the idea that the detraditionalization of the social is linked to feminization is widely taken up in contemporary analyses of socio - cultural change , particularly as such change ...
Indeed , as I will go on to illustrate in Chapter 3 the idea that the detraditionalization of the social is linked to feminization is widely taken up in contemporary analyses of socio - cultural change , particularly as such change ...
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new sociological directions and feminist sociological controversies | 13 |
reflexivity and mobility in social theory | 30 |
gender embodiment and reflexivity | 42 |
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| Title | Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late Modernity |
| Author | Lisa Adkins |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Open University Press, 2002 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 5 Nov 2008 |
| ISBN | 0335205232, 9780335205233 |
| Length | 152 pages |
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