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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Fraser's point here is not , as she makes clear , to suggest that those who disidentify with class identities somehow fail to be political , but rather that Skeggs's analysis points to certain limits to the politics of the performative ...
Fraser's point here is not , as she makes clear , to suggest that those who disidentify with class identities somehow fail to be political , but rather that Skeggs's analysis points to certain limits to the politics of the performative ...
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Third , attention is focused on these analyses as they point to some important limits of the reflexive modernization thesis ( especially Lash's and McNay's ) . For Lash this amounts to an overly cognitive understanding of reflexivity in ...
Third , attention is focused on these analyses as they point to some important limits of the reflexive modernization thesis ( especially Lash's and McNay's ) . For Lash this amounts to an overly cognitive understanding of reflexivity in ...
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I begin this chapter with a detailed exposition of Lash's analysis of the limits of reflexivity , his critique of the reflexive modernization thesis as articulated by Beck and Giddens , and his arguments regarding aesthetic or what he ...
I begin this chapter with a detailed exposition of Lash's analysis of the limits of reflexivity , his critique of the reflexive modernization thesis as articulated by Beck and Giddens , and his arguments regarding aesthetic or what he ...
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Contents
new sociological directions and feminist sociological controversies | 13 |
reflexivity and mobility in social theory | 30 |
gender embodiment and reflexivity | 42 |
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