Practising Identities: Power and Resistance (Explorations in Sociology) - Hardcover

British Sociological Association Conference (1997 University Of York)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312222270 ISBN 13: 9780312222277

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

Practising Identities is a collection of papers about how identities--gender, bodily, racial, ethnic, and national--are practiced 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 of 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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About the Authors

Sasha Roseneil is University Research Fellow in Sociology and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds.

Julie Seymour is Lecturer in Social Research in the School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences at the Unviersity of Hull.

Sasha Roseneil is University Research Fellow in Sociology and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds. Julie Seymour is Lecturer in Social Research in the School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences at the Unviersity of Hull.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312222270
• ISBN 13: 9780312222277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 257
• Editor: Roseneil Sasha, Seymour Julie