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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( Hennessy 1995 : 165 ) 2 For Hennessy , the failure of theorists such as Butler to register or elaborate on such sociohistorical conditions is to fail to recognize the close connection between the notion of identities as performative ...
( Hennessy 1995 : 165 ) 2 For Hennessy , the failure of theorists such as Butler to register or elaborate on such sociohistorical conditions is to fail to recognize the close connection between the notion of identities as performative ...
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McNay's analysis suggests that this is an issue of certain aspects of gender identity not being particularly amenable to reflexivity , a point which Lash's analysis may be said to negate . Finally , I spend some time on McNay's analysis ...
McNay's analysis suggests that this is an issue of certain aspects of gender identity not being particularly amenable to reflexivity , a point which Lash's analysis may be said to negate . Finally , I spend some time on McNay's analysis ...
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and it is this legacy which she suggests is reproduced in theories of reflexively constituted identity . Specifically , in the latter there is little if any interest in issues of embodiment . McNay singles out Giddens's work on ...
and it is this legacy which she suggests is reproduced in theories of reflexively constituted identity . Specifically , in the latter there is little if any interest in issues of embodiment . McNay singles out Giddens's work on ...
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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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