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Intimate Citizenship : Private Decisions and Public Dialogues

2003

This is the situation with which a part of humanity must already come to terms at the end of the century, and more will have to in the new millennium. [...] Acknowledgments For their encouragement, I am grateful to the organizers of the Stice Lec- tures at the University of Washington, Judith Howard and Gerald Baldasty, and to the director of the University of Washington Press, Pat Soden; and I thank the Press's editor Pamela Holway for her careful and thoughtful reading of the manuscript. [...] These include not only the frequent breakdown of traditionally conceived notions of the masculine and the feminine and hence new choices about different kinds of femininities and masculinities, but also the emergence of what some see as major "gender wars," as men and women seem increas- ingly incapable of living with each other and as sexual violence seems 6 INTIMATE TROUBLES to be on the increas [...] In cre- ating this pastiche, I will use the language of "intimate citizenship"—an idea I take to be a sensitizing concept, one that is not meant to be tight and operational, but open and suggestive.16 I use the notion of intimate citizenship to hint at worlds in the mak- ing, worlds in which a public language of "intimate troubles" is emerg- ing around issues of intimacy in the private life of ind [...] The death of Princess Diana and her lover, the sexual antics of an Eminem, Madonna, or Michael Jackson, the romance and spectacle of the film Titanic, or the Clinton-Lewinsky "cigar capers," which were disseminated throughout the world on the Web—all these media-based images of sexuality start to infiltrate our most intimate talk and relationships.
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Authors

Ken Plummer

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references [p. 163-178) and index
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302
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22
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Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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9780773571679 9780773526570
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HM1106
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P58 2003eb
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1 electronic text (xii, 187 p.)
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Canada
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)slc00215110 (OCoLC)243613832 (CaOOCEL)420303
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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