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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... difference , one that anchors difference in the roles of " self " and " other " , to remind us of our ability to see from a variety of perspectives ' ( Dean 1997 : 256 ) . Indeed , for Dean , such forms of reflexivity – that is ...
... difference , one that anchors difference in the roles of " self " and " other " , to remind us of our ability to see from a variety of perspectives ' ( Dean 1997 : 256 ) . Indeed , for Dean , such forms of reflexivity – that is ...
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... difference in these analyses . Specifically , while Featherstone's suggests that social difference may be a consequence of the struggles around the ability to claim or take up such a stance , Hennessy's suggests that social ...
... difference in these analyses . Specifically , while Featherstone's suggests that social difference may be a consequence of the struggles around the ability to claim or take up such a stance , Hennessy's suggests that social ...
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... difference , classification and division take place other than via the socio - structural or ' society ' . To pursue this logic is therefore to assume that matters defined to be outside of the socio - structural which here would include ...
... difference , classification and division take place other than via the socio - structural or ' society ' . To pursue this logic is therefore to assume that matters defined to be outside of the socio - structural which here would include ...
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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