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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... specific places and “habitus” (space). Our very feelings, bodies, sexualities, and ways of thinking take on different patterns under different social conditions. Human nature is not a very human thing; it is indeed a very social thing.1 ...
... specific questions posed by the arrival of cyberspace over the past few years: threaten your Do cyberspace interactions require the same rules as conventional mail? Can one remain anonymous? Is it acceptable to use pseudonyms? Can the ...
... specific kinds of relationships, but also with a certain overarching ideal: people strive for intimacy—for good relationships. Novelist Hanif Kureishi's Intimacy deals with some of this, too—and yet by the time part of his novel became ...
... specific country or nation but are engaged in on a wider scale and have much broader social ramifications. We may be starting to see the arrival of something like “global citizens,” who raise issues of global intimacies through their ...
... Specific figures vary across countries and for differing kinds of abuse, but there can be no doubt that such abuse is widespread and frequently condoned. This United Nations report, titled The State of the World Population: 2000 ...
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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 |