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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Gender and Sexuality in Late Modernity Lisa Adkins. As was highlighted above , McNay characterizes the differentiation of social fields in late modernity as ' the ... constitution 50 revisions : gender and sexuality in late modernity.
Gender and Sexuality in Late Modernity Lisa Adkins. As was highlighted above , McNay characterizes the differentiation of social fields in late modernity as ' the ... constitution 50 revisions : gender and sexuality in late modernity.
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... constitution of gender and sexuality would be to forego an analysis of power , ordering , hierarchy and inequality . Thus in such claims there is an assumption that the cultural is detraditionalizing or transgressive of the ordering and ...
... constitution of gender and sexuality would be to forego an analysis of power , ordering , hierarchy and inequality . Thus in such claims there is an assumption that the cultural is detraditionalizing or transgressive of the ordering and ...
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... constitution of gender and sexuality post social structure , indeed to separate them , appears to be antithetical to this task . To separate them may lead , for example , to problematic claims ... gender and sexuality in late modernity.
... constitution of gender and sexuality post social structure , indeed to separate them , appears to be antithetical to this task . To separate them may lead , for example , to problematic claims ... gender and sexuality in late modernity.
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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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