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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... relation to gender . That is , these shifts 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 ) ...
... relation to gender . That is , these shifts 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 ) ...
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... relation to cultural style makes a self- conscious relation to masculinity unintelligible . This analysis of transtextuality and immanence , especially in rela- tion to masculinity , appears to have some currency in relation to the ...
... relation to cultural style makes a self- conscious relation to masculinity unintelligible . This analysis of transtextuality and immanence , especially in rela- tion to masculinity , appears to have some currency in relation to the ...
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... relations in relation to the knower and the known which a more reflexive social research reaches to- wards . By contrast , in regard to my research Williams disallows such a reflex- ive dimension by attributing a lack of mobility in ...
... relations in relation to the knower and the known which a more reflexive social research reaches to- wards . By contrast , in regard to my research Williams disallows such a reflex- ive dimension by attributing a lack of mobility in ...
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new sociological directions and feminist sociological controversies | 13 |
the aestheticization of everyday life | 21 |
merely cultural | 27 |
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