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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which has at its core the theme of the cultural feminization of work , Felski ( 1997 ) presents some interesting hypotheses and provokes some important questions in this regard . The narrative structure of the genre is characterized by ...
which has at its core the theme of the cultural feminization of work , Felski ( 1997 ) presents some interesting hypotheses and provokes some important questions in this regard . The narrative structure of the genre is characterized by ...
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of 0 if fe II SI SE F Felski suggests such hybrid qualities in relation to femininity are apparent in the way the heroines of novels are contradictorily gendered . So , for instance , one heroine ' combines a “ masculine , piratical ...
of 0 if fe II SI SE F Felski suggests such hybrid qualities in relation to femininity are apparent in the way the heroines of novels are contradictorily gendered . So , for instance , one heroine ' combines a “ masculine , piratical ...
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So we might take up Felski's claim that an acknowledgement of mobility vis - à - vis subject positions is crucial for understanding contemporary culture , and consider the possibility of multiple positionings at work and what this might ...
So we might take up Felski's claim that an acknowledgement of mobility vis - à - vis subject positions is crucial for understanding contemporary culture , and consider the possibility of multiple positionings at work and what this might ...
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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 |
| Author | Lisa Adkins |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Open University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0335205232, 9780335205233 |
| Length | 152 pages |
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