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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... simply , we do not have to ' . The ' feel for the game ' is therefore a pre - reflexive , non - cognitive form of knowledge which ' is learnt by the body but cannot be explicitly articulated ' ( McNay 1999a : 101 ) . We can think of ...
... simply , we do not have to ' . The ' feel for the game ' is therefore a pre - reflexive , non - cognitive form of knowledge which ' is learnt by the body but cannot be explicitly articulated ' ( McNay 1999a : 101 ) . We can think of ...
Page 81
... simply reversed or substituted for each other – as is so evident in analyses of the feminization of work where the trope of masculinity is simply replaced with that of femininity - should themselves be put into question.21 While it ...
... simply reversed or substituted for each other – as is so evident in analyses of the feminization of work where the trope of masculinity is simply replaced with that of femininity - should themselves be put into question.21 While it ...
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... simply reproductive of certain ontological properties of the social . Thus I have questioned the assumption found for example in the work of writers such as Hennessey that reflexivity simply reproduces pre - existing divisions and ...
... simply reproductive of certain ontological properties of the social . Thus I have questioned the assumption found for example in the work of writers such as Hennessey that reflexivity simply reproduces pre - existing divisions and ...
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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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