Working out Intimacy: young people and friendship in an age of reflexivity.
Drawing upon a longitudinal, interview-based study of Australian secondary school students, this article explores young people's friendship experiences and attitudes to intimacy and the interpersonal. The discussion develops in relation to the work of Anthony Giddens on detraditionalisation and refl...
| Publicado en: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 211 - 227 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2002
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=7195529&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 7195529 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01596306 54J jtl: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education issn: 01596306 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2002 vid: 23 iid: 2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 7195529 10.1080/0159630022000000787 ppf: 211 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 177KB tig: atl: Working out Intimacy: young people and friendship in an age of reflexivity. aug: au: McLeod, Julie su: High school students Friendship Intimacy (Psychology) Australia sug: subj: Australia High school students Friendship Intimacy (Psychology) ab: Drawing upon a longitudinal, interview-based study of Australian secondary school students, this article explores young people's friendship experiences and attitudes to intimacy and the interpersonal. The discussion develops in relation to the work of Anthony Giddens on detraditionalisation and reflexivity, and Nikolas Rose on modernity and the self. First, I argue that feminism and psychotherapeutic ways of constituting and knowing the self are reconfiguring the cultural meanings of intimacy. Second, I suggest that this reworking of intimacy has differential and uneven effects and has particular consequences for the production of gendered subjectivities. Third, I raise some critical questions about the extent to which either Giddens's or Rose's account can properly capture the gendered and situated experiences of intimacy. I offer examples in which gender is being rearticulated in new yet familiar ways and note some persistent tensions in desires for connection and community versus autonomy and freedom. Carol Gilligan's work on gender differences in orientations to autonomy and connection is briefly revisited. Overall, it is argued that we need to take more account of how class, location and schooling differences influence dispositions to friendship and the interpersonal, and this is elaborated through a discussion of the 'relationship orientations' of two white Australian young men. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2002 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|