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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... women ' masquerading as a man was impossible ' ( McDowell and Court 1994b : 745 ) . One of the respondents commented ... masculinity at work may be understood to be linked to what Halberstam has described as ' a widespread anxiety about the ...
... women ' masquerading as a man was impossible ' ( McDowell and Court 1994b : 745 ) . One of the respondents commented ... masculinity at work may be understood to be linked to what Halberstam has described as ' a widespread anxiety about the ...
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... women focuses not so much on the performance of female masculinity , but on different forms of femininity by women . For instance , in films such as Working Girl ( 1988 ) cross - dressing for women is not a matter of an imitation or ...
... women focuses not so much on the performance of female masculinity , but on different forms of femininity by women . For instance , in films such as Working Girl ( 1988 ) cross - dressing for women is not a matter of an imitation or ...
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... women in my study , and in Roper's study a ' much more humane and ... masculinity , and an often uncomfortable identification with it ' ( p . 40 ) ... masculinity . - - Crucially for Williams , it is this aspect of Roper's study which is ...
... women in my study , and in Roper's study a ' much more humane and ... masculinity , and an often uncomfortable identification with it ' ( p . 40 ) ... masculinity . - - Crucially for Williams , it is this aspect of Roper's study which is ...
Contents
new sociological directions and feminist sociological controversies | 13 |
the aestheticization of everyday life | 21 |
merely cultural | 27 |
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