Gendered Risks

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. Gendered Risks : An Introduction / Kelly Hannah-moffat, Pat O'malley -- From Familial Disease To Genetic Risk : Harnessing Women's Labour In The (co)production Of Scientific Knowledge About Breast Cancer / Jessica Polzer, Ann Robertson -- The Decision Trap : How Genetic Counseling Transforms Pregnant Women Into Managers Of Fetal Risk Profiles / Silja Samerski -- Risk, Edgework, And Masculinities / Stephen Lyng, Rick Matthews -- Engaging In A Culture Of Barebacking : Gay Men And The Risk Of Hiv Prevention / Kane Race -- Criminal Justice And Risky Masculinities / Gaynor Bramhall, Barbara Hudson -- Gender Risks Of Retirement : The Legal Governance Of Defined Contribution Pensions In Canada / Mary Condon -- Risk And Criminal Victimization : Exploring The Fear Of Crime / Sandra Walklate -- Sentenced To Treatment, Sentenced To Harm : Women, Risk, And The Drug Treatment Courts / Dawn Moore, Tara Lyons -- Getting Mad Wi'it' : Risk Seeking By Young Women / Susan A. Batchelor -- Gendering Dynamic Risk : Assessing And Managing The Maternal Identities Of Women Prisoners / Kelly Hannah-moffat. Edited By Kelly Hannah-moffat And Pat O'malley. A Glasshouse Book. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Book Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Gendered risks: An introduction Chapter 2 From familial disease to ‘genetic risk’: Harnessing women’s labour in the (co)production of scientific knowledge about breast cancer Chapter 3 The 'decision trap': How genetic counselling transforms pregnant women into managers of foetal risk profiles Chapter 4 Risk, edgework, and masculinities Chapter 5 Engaging in a culture of barebacking: Gay men and the risk of HIV prevention Chapter 6 Criminial justice and 'risky' masculinities Chapter 7 Gendered risk of retirement: The legal governance of defined contribution pensions in Canada Chapter 8 Risk and criminal victimization: Exploring the fear of crime Chapter 9 Sentenced to treatment/sentenced to harm: Women, risk and the drug treatment courts Chapter 10 'Getting mad wi' it': Risk seeking by young women Chapter 11 Gendering dynamic risk: Assessing and managing the material identities of women prisoners Index "The shift toward 'government by risk' and the fore-fronting of 'risk consciousness' has not had the same impact on men and women alike. Complex and multiple understandings of femininity and masculinity inform risk thinking, as well as institutional and individual responses to various risks. This collection of international and interdisciplinary papers analyses what we currently known about gendered risks. It also identifies some of the new directions and challenges for research and theory that emerge out of thinking risk as a governmental technique, as a form of consciousness and action, and as a political issue, that shapes, and is shaped by, gender in contemporary society."--Jacket 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. This international collection of edited interdisciplinary papers analyzes what we currently know about gendered risks, and identifies some new directions and challenges for research and theory