Intimate Citizenships: Gender, Sexualities, Politics

by Oleksy; Elzbieta H.

• ISBN13: 9780415990769
• ISBN10: 0415990769
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume responds to the need to extend the theory of citizenship, in order to bridge the gap between the public and the private sphere. Through the application of intersectional methodology, the authors document how people#xE2;#xAC;"s most private decisions and practices are intertwined with public institutions and state policies. The stories of intimate citizenship included in this volume make the theoretical discussion more palpable. Situated perspectives, as well as application of theoretical concepts to lived experience, extend citizenship#xE2;#xAC;"s territory beyond the conventional public sphere and locate it at the intersection of many axes of social, political, and cultural stratification.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Citizenship Revisted

Gender Politics G++ Towards a New Vision of the Subject

Sexual Politics, Torture, and Secular Time

Post-Secular Feminist Ethics

Return of MenG++s Narratives and the Vicious Circle of Gender Play

Negotiating Citizenship G++ Gender, Sexuality, Politics

(Trans)Forming Gender: Social Change and Transgender Citizenship

Blood, Water and the Politics of Biology: Examining the Primacy of Biological Kinship in Family Policy and (Step)Family Discourse

Intimate Citizenship and the Right to Care: The Case of Breastfeeding

Gender, Sexuality and Nation G++ Here and Now: Reflections on the Gendered and Sexualized Aspects of Contemporary Polish Nationalism

Defining Pornography, Defining Gender: Sexual Citizenship in the Discourse of Czech Sexology and Criminology

Lesbian Representation and Postcolonial Allegory

Men and Masculinities G++ New Identities, Emerging Subjectivities

Patriarchies, Transpatriarchies, and Intersectionalities

Changing Czech Masculinities? Beyond Environment and Children Friendly Men

Experiencing Masculinity: Between Crisis, Withdrawal, and Change

Bent Straights: Diversity and Flux among Heterosexual Men

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