Gendered Risks

ISBN-13: 9781904385783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 264 str.

&. Hannah-Moffat

Opis

This collection of interdisciplinary papers analyses what we currently know about gendered risks and identifies some of the new directions and challenges for research and theory that emerge out of thinking of risk as a governmental technique, as a form of consciousness and action, and as a political issue shaped by gender.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Risk, Justice and Diversity  3. Risk and Victimization  4. Maculinities, 'Edgework' and Risk Taking  5. Risk and Gendered Identities  6. Barebacking, Risk and the Productivity of Prohibition  7. (Re)Mapping 'the Family' in the Context of Predictive Genetic Testing for Hereditary Breast Cancer Risk: Gendered Responsibilities in the Age of Genetic Risk  8. Genetics and Risk in Prenatal Diagnosis  9. Risk, Gender and Genomics  10. Gendered Risk Assessment Practices and Pension Investment Decision-Making  11. 'Getting Mad wi' it': Risk-Seeking by Young Women  12. Risky Relations: Criminogenic Factors and Female Prisoners

O autorze

Pat O'Malley, Kelly Hannah-Moffat