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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... exist between fin-de-siècle crises and those of today.7 From concerns over sexual disease, the age of consent, and the arrival of “new women” to fears of homosexuality, the crisis of the body, and the appearance of runaway a ...
... exists in the doing of sex and love, obviously, but also in the doing of families, marriages, and friendships, in child bearing and child rearing, and in caring for others. In these instances, intimacy is likely to have close links to ...
... exist worldwide and carry on debates about intimacies; major international organizations have been established to fight HIV / AIDS; worldwide political organizations such as the United Nations discuss global human sexual and ...
... exist—usually to do with the structuring of inequalities—that also play major roles in the shaping of intimacies, and these, too, have been around for a long time. The world over, people continue to confront inequalities that shape ...
... exist throughout the world, and on a tragic scale. Utopian Experiments in Living and Dystopian Risk The changes I have been discussing may seem dramatic, but they must not be given too apocalyptic a reading. Change is and always has ...
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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 |