This international collection of edited interdisciplinary papers analyzes what is currently known about gendered risks, and identifies some new directions and challenges for research and theory.
Edited and contributed to by a collection of eminent international scholars in the field, this is the first book to explore the gendered aspects of risk.
It analyzes what is currently known and identifies some of the new directions and challenges for research and theory that emerge from thinking of risk as a governmental technique; as a form of consciousness and action and as a political issue, shaped by, and shaping gender in contemporary society.
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