Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late Modern

Neuausgabe 2002
ISBN: 978-0-335-20522-6
Verlag: OPEN UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

This book will become a critical text in feminist and social theory. It 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. Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late Modernity will be essential reading for advanced undergraduates, research students and academics working in the fields of feminist theory, social theory, sociology, women's studies and cultural studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adkins

Adkins, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
New sociological directions and feminist sociological controversies
Reflexivity and mobility in social theory
Feminization, mobility and cultural economy
Reflexivity and the politics of knowledge
Reflexivity, risk and the (neo liberal) politics of sexuality
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Adkins is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester and previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University. She is author and co-author of several books and journal articles including Gendered Work.