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Who am I?
Who do I want to be?

Questions of identity - individual and collective - confront us at every turn at the end of the twentieth century. Practising Identities 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; identities are complex, multiple, fragmented and always changing. This book focuses on a variety of identity practices, in a range of different settings, from the gym and the body-piercing studio, to the further education college and the National Health Service. The question of power and the possibilities of creating identities of resistance are to the forefront throughout the book. Drawing on detailed empirical studies and recent social and cultural theory about identity, this book makes an important contribution to current debates about identity, reflexivity, and cultural difference.

SASHA ROSENEIL is a University 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. 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.