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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that ' in the 1990s workplace performances are ... increasingly influenced by feminine characteristics ' ( McDowell 1997 : 298 ) , an influence which is understood to take expression in the increasing emphasis on appearance , image and ...
that ' in the 1990s workplace performances are ... increasingly influenced by feminine characteristics ' ( McDowell 1997 : 298 ) , an influence which is understood to take expression in the increasing emphasis on appearance , image and ...
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Some , for example , were found to adopt a ' feminised version of the male uniform ' ( McDowell 1997 : 146 ) and others to perform as “ honorary men ' , but such performances are shown to be ' doomed to failure ' ( 1997 : 197 ) ...
Some , for example , were found to adopt a ' feminised version of the male uniform ' ( McDowell 1997 : 146 ) and others to perform as “ honorary men ' , but such performances are shown to be ' doomed to failure ' ( 1997 : 197 ) ...
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such as Tootsie ( 1982 ) and Mrs Doubtfire ( 1993 ) , whose central male characters are cross - dressers and whose impersonations and performances of femininity take place for and at work . Indeed , both films ' emphasise the need to ...
such as Tootsie ( 1982 ) and Mrs Doubtfire ( 1993 ) , whose central male characters are cross - dressers and whose impersonations and performances of femininity take place for and at work . Indeed , both films ' emphasise the need to ...
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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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