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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Page 81
For in the case of cultural economy it seems that the aesthetic is not only an
important source of gender reflexivity , but also that the aesthetic dimension
involves uneven manifestations of reflexivity . Specifically , while the broad shifts
in the ...
For in the case of cultural economy it seems that the aesthetic is not only an
important source of gender reflexivity , but also that the aesthetic dimension
involves uneven manifestations of reflexivity . Specifically , while the broad shifts
in the ...
Page 99
It seems therefore that the capacity for reflexive social research , and in particular
the precondition of referential reflexivity ( for example , claims of a recursive
identification between knower and known ) is an issue of overcoming fixity on the
...
It seems therefore that the capacity for reflexive social research , and in particular
the precondition of referential reflexivity ( for example , claims of a recursive
identification between knower and known ) is an issue of overcoming fixity on the
...
Page 120
On this kind of evidence it seems that HIV testing figures heterosexuality as
internally checked and self - regulated and therefore as a ' safe ' , ' low risk '
sexual identity . Thus , as has been seen , for Lupton et al.'s respondents , the
practice of ...
On this kind of evidence it seems that HIV testing figures heterosexuality as
internally checked and self - regulated and therefore as a ' safe ' , ' low risk '
sexual identity . Thus , as has been seen , for Lupton et al.'s respondents , the
practice of ...
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Contents
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 Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late Modernity, Lisa Adkins |
| 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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