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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... instance comparative projects of the organization of gender within and between the different member states of the European Union . On this kind of model where gender and sexuality are conceived as a matter of social structure , a ...
... instance comparative projects of the organization of gender within and between the different member states of the European Union . On this kind of model where gender and sexuality are conceived as a matter of social structure , a ...
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... instance global movements of people , commodities , money or knowledge ) , or of reflexivity at the level of social systems ( see e.g. Alexander 1996 ) . Rather the cases considered in this book are much more small - scale and situated ...
... instance global movements of people , commodities , money or knowledge ) , or of reflexivity at the level of social systems ( see e.g. Alexander 1996 ) . Rather the cases considered in this book are much more small - scale and situated ...
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... instance , one heroine ' combines a " masculine , piratical swagger " with the feminine body of a " great courtesan of the Belle Epoque " ' , and another ' usually identified with " feminine , long - legged grace " could also " almost ...
... instance , one heroine ' combines a " masculine , piratical swagger " with the feminine body of a " great courtesan of the Belle Epoque " ' , and another ' usually identified with " feminine , long - legged grace " could also " almost ...
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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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