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Examines transformations in the realm of intimacy and the conflicts - the 'intimate troubles' - to which these changes give rise. This book focuses on the overlap of public and private and asks the question, what impact does the increasingly public character of personal life have on our sense of ourselves and on how we view our intimate choices?

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
1/ Intimate Troubles
2/ Postmodern Intimacies: New Lives in a Late Modern World
3/ Culture Wars and Contested Intimacies
4/ The New Theories of Citizenship
5/ Public Intimacies, Private Citizens
6/ Dialogic Citizenship
7/ Stories and the Grounded Moralities of Everyday Life
8/ Globalizing Intimate Citizenship
9/ The Intimate Citizenship Project
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index

Intimate Citizenship

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      Publisher: University of Washington Press
      Publication Date: 01/09/2003
      ISBN13: 9780295983318, 978-0295983318
      ISBN10: 0295983310
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      Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines transformations in the realm of intimacy and the conflicts - the 'intimate troubles' - to which these changes give rise. This book focuses on the overlap of public and private and asks the question, what impact does the increasingly public character of personal life have on our sense of ourselves and on how we view our intimate choices?

      Table of Contents

      Preface and Acknowledgments
      1/ Intimate Troubles
      2/ Postmodern Intimacies: New Lives in a Late Modern World
      3/ Culture Wars and Contested Intimacies
      4/ The New Theories of Citizenship
      5/ Public Intimacies, Private Citizens
      6/ Dialogic Citizenship
      7/ Stories and the Grounded Moralities of Everyday Life
      8/ Globalizing Intimate Citizenship
      9/ The Intimate Citizenship Project
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index of Names
      Subject Index

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