Overview

This text outlines the challenge presented by key debates on identity to central questions of gender, sexuality, embodiment, health, ""race"" and nation. It includes discussion of: the importance of identity and difference in the contemporary world at multiple levels - global, local and personal; the ways in which identities are constructed for and by individuals; notions of the fixity of identity and difference; explanations of identity and difference from essentialist, social constructionist, psychoanalytic, feminist and discursive approaches; and the complexity of contemporary identities through a range of examples including popular discourses of motherhood, ideas of the healthy body and diaspora identities.

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'The book is easy to use and its layout demonstrates some skill in constructing volumes that 'work' as study guides and reference tools. The merit of this book goes well beyond its suitability for course applications. Contemporary ideas on identity provide new meanings for an old concept' - Multilingual and Multicultural

Author Information

Kathryn Woodward is a Regional Staff Tutor for Sociology for The Open University CONTRIBUTORS Susan Benson University of Cambridge Paul Gilroy Goldsmiths College University of London Lynne Segal Middlesex University Chris Shilling University of Portsmouth

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