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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... individualization Two further sociological characteristics are also understood to flow from the conditions allowing for intensified capacities of reflexivity : detraditionalization and individualization . Indeed , in the reflexive ...
... individualization Two further sociological characteristics are also understood to flow from the conditions allowing for intensified capacities of reflexivity : detraditionalization and individualization . Indeed , in the reflexive ...
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... individualization . For example , in analyses of contemporary economy , it is suggested that a recent privileging of the performative aspects of labour , particularly in service based economies , has amounted to an intensi- fied ...
... individualization . For example , in analyses of contemporary economy , it is suggested that a recent privileging of the performative aspects of labour , particularly in service based economies , has amounted to an intensi- fied ...
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... individualization . Thus Hennessy understands consumer culture , not only as detraditionalizing but also individualizing . In particular , the consump- tion of consumer goods is understood to be constitutive of individuality . In ...
... individualization . Thus Hennessy understands consumer culture , not only as detraditionalizing but also individualizing . In particular , the consump- tion of consumer goods is understood to be constitutive of individuality . In ...
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new sociological directions and feminist sociological controversies | 13 |
reflexivity and mobility in social theory | 30 |
feminization mobility and cultural economy | 57 |
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