Explorations in Sociology.: Power and Resistance

Roseneil, Sasha; Seymour, Julie

Practising Identities is a collection of papers about how identities - gender, bodily, racial, ethnic and national - are practised in the contemporary world. Identities are actively constructed, chosen, created and performed by people in their daily lives, and this book focuses on a variety of identity practices, in a range of different settings, from the gym and the piercing studio, to the further education college and the National Health Service. Drawing on detailed empirical studies and recent social and cultural theory about identity this book makes an important intervention in current debates about identity, reflexivity, and cultural difference.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1999-07-22

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780333747599

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-27653-0

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 257