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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Along with other commentators ( see e.g. Featherstone 1991 ) Hennessy notes that in consumer culture such a stylization or self - fashioning increasingly constitutes individuality , and is figured as achievable through the purchase of ...
Along with other commentators ( see e.g. Featherstone 1991 ) Hennessy notes that in consumer culture such a stylization or self - fashioning increasingly constitutes individuality , and is figured as achievable through the purchase of ...
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Martin notes such a logic of reversal in an advertisement for a large banking corporation based in the US in which ' a woman sailor makes it clear to men rowers ...
Martin notes such a logic of reversal in an advertisement for a large banking corporation based in the US in which ' a woman sailor makes it clear to men rowers ...
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Ahmed notes that while often fascinated with sexual difference and sexuality , nevertheless this genre is often read as overcoming such differences . But she argues while postmodern fictions are frequently read as such , they ' may re ...
Ahmed notes that while often fascinated with sexual difference and sexuality , nevertheless this genre is often read as overcoming such differences . But she argues while postmodern fictions are frequently read as such , they ' may re ...
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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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| 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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