Intimate Citizenship: Private Decisions and Public DialoguesUniversity of Washington Press, 2011 M10 1 - 192 páginas Solo parenting, in vitro fertilization, surrogate mothers, gay and lesbian families, cloning and the prospect of “designer babies,” Viagra and the morning-after pill, HIV/AIDS, the global porn industry, on-line dating services, virtual sex--whether for better of worse, our intimate lives are in the throes of dramatic change. In this thought-provoking study, sociologist Ken Plummer examines the transformations taking place in the realm of intimacy and the conflicts--the “intimate troubles”--to which these changes constantly give rise. In surveying the intimate possibilities now available to us and the issues swirling around them, Plummer focuses especially on the overlap of public and private. Increasingly, our most private decisions are bound up with public institutions such as legal codes, the medical system, or the media. |
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... child was going to come out of it. And when it became apparent that there were problems and the first interventions are things like postcoital tests and timing intercourse, I remember going to the doctor. ... And then you get labeled ...
... child abuse and violence toward women and the elderly are rampant everywhere, alongside a “crisis in masculinity ... Children are out of control and under siege, while youth itself has become synonymous with trouble. Abortion signifies ...
... child rearing; the value of living alone and of adult friendships; and the widespread acceptance of divorce, out-of- wedlock conception, cohabitation, and remarriage. And with these come all kinds of new relationships among multiple ...
... child? Why have a child? What is a family? And there again, just what can it be like to be born the child of a 63-year-old mother? “Intimate troubles” and “choices” over the ever wider use of medical technologies and drugs to transform ...
... child pornography and racism? As more and more schools begin to use the Internet, questions come up such as: Should pupils be totally free in the use of the Internet? Can we design reasonable guidelines for children's use of cyberspace ...
Contenido
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3 Culture Wars and Contested Intimacies | 33 |
4 The New Theories of Citizenship | 49 |
5 Public Intimacies Private Citizens | 67 |
6 Dialogic Citizenship | 84 |
7 Stories and the Grounded Moralities of Everyday Life | 95 |
8 Globalizing Intimate Citizenship | 117 |
9 The Intimate Citizenship Project | 139 |
Notes | 147 |
Bibliography | 163 |
Index of Names | 179 |
Subject Index | 183 |
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Intimate Citizenship: Private Decisions and Public Dialogues Ken Plummer Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
Intimate Citizenship: Private Decisions and Public Dialogues Ken Plummer Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |