Revisions : gender and sexuality in late modernity
"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
viii, 152 pages ; 23 cm
9780335205233, 9780335205226, 0335205232, 0335205224
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IntroductionNew sociological directions and feminist sociological controversiesReflexivity and mobility in social theoryFeminization, mobility and cultural economyReflexivity and the politics of knowledgeReflexivity, risk and the (neo liberal) politics of sexualityConclusionBibliographyIndex.