Reflexivity and the Transformation of Gender Identity
Reviewing the Potential for Change in a Cosmopolitan City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2321811 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann Brooks (The University of Adelaide, corresponding author), L Wee (0000-0002-2176-7951, National University of Singapore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 503-521 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038038508088825 |
| OpenAlex | W2014040401 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 32 |
It has been claimed that the conditions of modernity create the opportunities as well as the need for social actors to take greater responsibility for their own identities. Feminist theorists have responded to such 'celebratory' views of identity transformation with caution, emphasizing instead the situated nature of critical reflexivity and arguing that the opportunities for transformations in gender identity are far more limited than has been suggested by modernization theorists. In this article, the authors address this issue of the transformative potential of critical reflexivity by drawing upon Frankfurt's (1988) notion of second-order desires and Bonham's (1999) re-working of this in relation to Bourdieu's social theory. Illustrating the argument with data drawn from three case studies from Singapore, the authors show that where second-order desires result from deliberations and public debates - whether these are habituated or institutionalized, or not - transformations in conceptions of gender can and do emerge
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis) · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Late modernity · Modernity · Modernization theory · Order (exchange) · Political science · Reflexivity · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Theoretical Approaches and Modern Trends for Studying Gender Identity Phenomenon
Bourdieu, Feminism and Female Physical Culture
Gender Regimes and Habitus
Wandering and Wondering
Sprawstwo kobiet w organizacjach katolickich
Sharing as an activity type
Men Discussing Women and Women Discussing Men
Negotiating Gendered Subjectivity in the Enterprise Culture
Reflexivity and the Construction of Competing Discourses of Masculinity in a Female‐Dominated Profession
Rituals and Embodiment
Narratives in Reconstituting, Reaffirming, and (Re)traditionalizing Identities
Gender, Class Aspirations, and Emerging Fields of Body Work in Urban India
An inherently reflexive habitus
Under Pressure
Habitus Disjunctures, Reflexivity and White Working-Class Boys' Conceptions of Status in Learner and Social Identities
Bourdieu, Gender Reflexivity, and Physical Culture
Gender, sexuality and lifestyle migration
Changing Britain
The Importance of Disappointment
The Importance of What We Care About
Language & Communicative Practices
Generative metaphor
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Formations of Class and Gender
The Transformation of Intimacy
The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore
Global diasporas
Rewriting the Soul
The Logic of Practice
An invitation to reflexive sociology
Twenty-First Century Dis-Ease? Habitual Reflexivity Or the Reflexive Habitus
Context and Background
Thinking Feminism with and against Bourdieu
Sex and Medicine
Bargaining With Patriarchy
Gender, Habitus and the Field
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Reflexivity
Hybridizing Habitus and Reflexivity
Organizations, Self-Identities and the New Economy
The cosmopolitan perspective
Does genderfit? Bourdieu, feminism, and conceptions of social order
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |