Intimate citizenship : private decisions and public dialogues / Ken Plummer.
"In this 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 arou...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | Earl and Edna Stice lecture-book series in social science.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR |
| Summary: | "In this 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."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 187 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0295802243 9780295802244 0295983310 9780295983318 |