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Suzanne Moore shared her feelings about being present at Westminster Abbey during the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, admitting:
When the coffin appeared, my tears began to flow. I was not embarrassed. There is no longer the need to be embarrassed. For surely part of Diana’s legacy is that we need not repress our emotions. Like many people, I wept for this loss and other losses brought back to me (Independent on Sunday, 7 September 1997, p. 1).
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For some reflections upon the different roles that the media played in those days after Diana’s death see, for instance, J. Richards, S. Wilson and L. Woodhead, eds, Diana: The Makings of a Media Saint (London, I.B. Tauris, 1999)
J. Tunstall, Newspaper Power: The New National Press in Britain (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996)
S. Roseneil, ‘A Moment of Moral Remaking: The Death of Diana, Princess of Wales’ in F. Webster, ed., Culture and Politics in the Information Age (London: Routledge, 2001) pp. 96–114.
For an early discussion of the diverse ways that men responded to feminism in the 1970s see Victor J. Seidler, Recreating Sexual Politics: Men, Feminism and Politics (London: Routledge, 1991).
For some sense of the intellectual responses see Men in Feminism, A. Jardine and P. Smith, eds (London: Methuen, 1987).
Early discussions in the men’s movement which reflect upon men’s power within relationships are recorded in Arthur Brittan, Masculinity and Power (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989); Jeff Hearn, The Gender of Oppression; R. Connell, Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987) and Masculinities (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995)
Victor J. Seidler, Rediscovering Masculinity: Reason, Language and Sexuality (London: Routledge 1989); Man Enough: Embodying Masculinities (London: Sage, 2000) and Transforming Masculinities: Men, Cultures, Bodies, Power, Sex and Love (London: Routledge, 2006).
Some of the dynamics in heterosexual relationships are explored in a helpful way in Lillian Rubin, Intimate Strangers: Men, Women Together (New York: Harper & Row, 1983)
also in Susie Orbach and Luise Eichenbaum What Do Women Want?: Exploding the Myth of Depending (Berkley Books, 1994).
There are some illuminating discussions about the ethics of Thatcherism and the market values which were dominant in the 1980s in R. Keat and N. Abercrombie, eds, The Enterprise Culture (London: Routledge, 1990)
Martin Jacques and Stuart Hall, Thatcherism (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1983).
The ways in which these notions of deference were reflected in traditional working class cultures is reflected in Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books (1958).
It is also a theme in Raymond Williams, Culture and Society (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1961).
For a helpful assessment of some of the main aspects of contemporary debates about the politics of race and migration see Robert Miles, Racism After ‘Race Relations (London: Routledge, 1994).
For a discussion which focuses upon the urban context of the process of racialisation which shows that the city provides the institutional framework for racial segregation see Racism the City and the State, eds, Malcolm Cross and Michael Keith (London: Routledge, 1993)
Michael Keith’s more recently After Cosmopolitanism (Routledge, London, 2006)
B. Ehrenreich and A. Russell Hochschild, eds, Global Women: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers (London: Granta Books, 2003)
Zygmunt Bauman, Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Outcasts (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003)
Saskia Sassen, Guests and Aliens (New York: New Press, 1999)
Nirmal Puwar, Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place (Oxford: Berg 2004)
N. Puwar and P. Raghuram, eds, South Asian Women in the Diaspora (Oxford: Berg, 2003)
Sallie Westwood and Anne Phizacklea, Trans-Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging (London: Routledge, 2000).
I have explored issues to do with citizenship and difference in the wake of the London bombings in Urban Fears and Global Terrors: Citizenship, Multiculture and Belongings after 7/7 (London: Routledge, 2007). See also N. Yuval-Davis, K. Kannabiran and U. Vieten, eds, The Situated Politics of Belonging (London: Sage 2006)
Michael Keith, After Cosmopolitanism (London: Routledge, 2006)
Chetan Bhatt, Liberation and Purity: Race, New Religious Movements and the Ethics of Postmodernity (London: UCL Press, 1997)
Khalid Koser, ed., New African Diaporas (London: Routledge, 2003)
Robin Cohen, Global Diasporas (London: UCL Press, 1997).
A useful set of essays that sets out some of the critical issues between liberalism and communitarianism is provided in Liberalism and Its Critics, ed., Michael Sandel (Oxford: Blackwell, 1982). For a sense of the way commu-nitarianism has developed as a political movement, see Amitai Etzione, The Spirit of Community (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993).
An illuminating set of essays which serve to explore the relationship between modernity in its changing phases and conceptions of identity is Modernity and Identity, eds M. Friedman and S. Lash (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993)
See also A. Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991)
Victor J. Seidler, Embodying Identities: Culture, Differences and Social Theory (Bristol: Policy Press, 2010).
A crucial discussion of the nature of the nature of risk and insecurity within late capitalist society is provided by Ulrich Beck, The Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (London: Sage, 1992).
It is also a crucial theme in Reflexive Modernisation: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order, Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens and Scott Lasch, eds (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994).
An exploration of the changing character of love and relationships within late capitalist societies and the implications of what it means for men and women to increasingly become the authors of their own forms of lives is offered in Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, The Normal Chaos of Love (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995) and Individualization (London: Sage, 2001).
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Seidler, V.J. (2013). Democracy, ‘New Britain’, Freedom and Self-Invention. In: Remembering Diana. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371903_9
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