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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While such movements contest a range of injustices , and demand both cultural and economic change , nevertheless as prospects for redistribution appear to recede , increasingly identity - based claims predominate .
While such movements contest a range of injustices , and demand both cultural and economic change , nevertheless as prospects for redistribution appear to recede , increasingly identity - based claims predominate .
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Along with this goes homophobia : the cultural devaluation of homosexuality . Their sexuality thus disparaged , homosexuals are subject to shaming , harassment , discrimination , and violence , while being denied legal rights and equal ...
Along with this goes homophobia : the cultural devaluation of homosexuality . Their sexuality thus disparaged , homosexuals are subject to shaming , harassment , discrimination , and violence , while being denied legal rights and equal ...
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In highlighting aspects of the political economy of sexuality , Butler therefore intends to put in doubt the view that sexuality is ' merely cultural ' and to unsettle the stability of the very distinction that makes this line of ...
In highlighting aspects of the political economy of sexuality , Butler therefore intends to put in doubt the view that sexuality is ' merely cultural ' and to unsettle the stability of the very distinction that makes this line of ...
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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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