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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... may be described as involving the cultivation of techniques which allow the enjoyment of ' the swing between the extremes of aesthetic involvement and detachment ' ( Featherstone 1992 : 285 ) in regard to gender performances .
... may be described as involving the cultivation of techniques which allow the enjoyment of ' the swing between the extremes of aesthetic involvement and detachment ' ( Featherstone 1992 : 285 ) in regard to gender performances .
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such as Tootsie ( 1982 ) and Mrs Doubtfire ( 1993 ) , whose central male characters are cross - dressers and whose impersonations and performances of femininity take place for and at work . Indeed , both films ' emphasise the need to ...
such as Tootsie ( 1982 ) and Mrs Doubtfire ( 1993 ) , whose central male characters are cross - dressers and whose impersonations and performances of femininity take place for and at work . Indeed , both films ' emphasise the need to ...
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For example , while white male characters in more recent Blaxploitation films are mobile in relation to various masculine aesthetics , and such performances constitute reflexivity and forms of cultural capital , the male professional ...
For example , while white male characters in more recent Blaxploitation films are mobile in relation to various masculine aesthetics , and such performances constitute reflexivity and forms of cultural capital , the male professional ...
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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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| 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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