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 identity , a failure which leads to an overemphasis on the expressive possibilities thrown up by processes of detraditionalization . She suggests that a more sustained examination of questions related to gender , embodiment and ...
... gender identity , a failure which leads to an overemphasis on the expressive possibilities thrown up by processes of detraditionalization . She suggests that a more sustained examination of questions related to gender , embodiment and ...
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... gender is that it highlights the ways in which gender identity cannot simply be conceived of as the internalization of an external set of representations , that is as a conscious process of memorization . Rather , it foregrounds the ...
... gender is that it highlights the ways in which gender identity cannot simply be conceived of as the internalization of an external set of representations , that is as a conscious process of memorization . Rather , it foregrounds the ...
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... gender , but she suggests such movements may further entrench other conventional patterns . For example , such moves ... identity . She also points to sexual desire and maternal feelings as examples of unconscious , prereflexive ...
... gender , but she suggests such movements may further entrench other conventional patterns . For example , such moves ... identity . She also points to sexual desire and maternal feelings as examples of unconscious , prereflexive ...
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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| 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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