Practising Identities: Power and Resistance (Explorations in Sociology) (Explorations in Sociology. British Sociological Association Conference Volume Series)

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Synopsis This 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 social and cultural theory about identity this book makes an intervention in current debates about identity, reflexivity, and cultural difference. About the Author SASHA ROSENEIL is a University Principal Research Fellow in Sociology and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Disarming Patriarchy: Feminism and Political Action at Greenham and Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of Greenham.JULIE SEYMOUR is a Lecturer in Social Research in the School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences, University of Hull. She is co-author of Relating Intimacies: Power and Resistance. Recent publications include contributions to Men, Gender Division and Welfare and Gender, Power and the Household.