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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... ( McNay 1999a : 98 ) is that it leads , McNay argues , to a tendency towards voluntarism . Thus in theories of reflexively constituted identity there is an overemphasis on the possibilities of a self - fashioning of identity in late ...
... ( McNay 1999a : 98 ) is that it leads , McNay argues , to a tendency towards voluntarism . Thus in theories of reflexively constituted identity there is an overemphasis on the possibilities of a self - fashioning of identity in late ...
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... McNay also discusses women's entry into the workforce as an aspect of the detraditionalization of gender , but she suggests such movements may further entrench other conventional patterns . For example , such moves have not freed women ...
... McNay also discusses women's entry into the workforce as an aspect of the detraditionalization of gender , but she suggests such movements may further entrench other conventional patterns . For example , such moves have not freed women ...
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... ( McNay 1999a : 107 ) For McNay the detraditionalization of gender is therefore under- stood as an issue of an intensified differentiation of social fields , an increasing mobility across fields , a lack of ' fit ' between gendered ...
... ( McNay 1999a : 107 ) For McNay the detraditionalization of gender is therefore under- stood as an issue of an intensified differentiation of social fields , an increasing mobility across fields , a lack of ' fit ' between gendered ...
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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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