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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... suggests ' has enabled a more flexible patriarchal gender ideology in multinational capitalist economies ' ( 1995 : 149 ) . As this suggests , Hennessy , like Nancy Fraser , sees that Butler's analysis of performativity - especially its ...
... suggests ' has enabled a more flexible patriarchal gender ideology in multinational capitalist economies ' ( 1995 : 149 ) . As this suggests , Hennessy , like Nancy Fraser , sees that Butler's analysis of performativity - especially its ...
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... suggests that this is an issue of certain aspects of gender identity not being particularly amenable to reflexivity , a point which Lash's analysis may be said to negate . Finally , I spend some time on McNay's analysis to draw ...
... suggests that this is an issue of certain aspects of gender identity not being particularly amenable to reflexivity , a point which Lash's analysis may be said to negate . Finally , I spend some time on McNay's analysis to draw ...
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... suggests that social difference may be a consequence of the struggles around the ability to claim or take up such a stance , Hennessy's suggests that social difference and various forms of ( class ) inequality are not related to such ...
... suggests that social difference may be a consequence of the struggles around the ability to claim or take up such a stance , Hennessy's suggests that social difference and various forms of ( class ) inequality are not related to such ...
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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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