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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... consumer culture . In particular , it is to fail to register the association between the idea of performatively con- stituted identities and the emphasis in consumer culture on a self - conscious ' stylized construction of almost every ...
... consumer culture . In particular , it is to fail to register the association between the idea of performatively con- stituted identities and the emphasis in consumer culture on a self - conscious ' stylized construction of almost every ...
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... consumer culture . More than this , however , Hennessy implicitly links the emergence of mobile gender and sexual identities to detraditionalization and individual- ization . Thus for Hennessy consumer culture is understood as a ...
... consumer culture . More than this , however , Hennessy implicitly links the emergence of mobile gender and sexual identities to detraditionalization and individual- ization . Thus for Hennessy consumer culture is understood as a ...
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... culture is predominantly figured and defined as a consumer culture . In particular , the characteristics of consumer culture including the sovereignty of the sign , appearance , image and style ; surface , simulation and masquerade ...
... culture is predominantly figured and defined as a consumer culture . In particular , the characteristics of consumer culture including the sovereignty of the sign , appearance , image and style ; surface , simulation and masquerade ...
Contents
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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