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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... reproductive, “recreational,” “safer” sexualities: telephone sex, cybersex, outercourse, masturbation, sadomasochism, “fist-fucking,” and the fetish scene. These in turn raise concerns about teen sexuality and even about sexually active ...
... reproductive technologies or assisted conceptions. Here we enter into controversies around surrogate motherhood, test-tube babies, and the whole paraphernalia of in-vitro fertilization, egg donation, artificial insemination by donor ...
... reproductive technologies or cybersex, for example—many of them have long and tangled roots in the past. The new is often not as new as we like to think. Sex work—or prostitution—may be “the oldest profession,” same-sex marriages may ...
... reproductive technologies are only one of many such sets of changes. The idea of “intimate citizenship” has been proposed to help us get a sense of precisely how intimacies may be changing and how they are being contested.In this and ...
... reproductive potential whatsoever, while at the very same time much reproductive activity can be conducted in the absence of sexual intercourse. We have reached the age of assisted conception and the age of non-procreative sex. A time ...
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 |