Gendered Risks
Routledge Cavendish (Publisher)
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-904385-79-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 unique international edited 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 an governmental technique, as a form of consciousness and action, and as a political issue - shaped by, and shaping - gender in contemporary society.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-904385-79-0 (9781904385790)
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Persons
Pat O'Malley has been a leading writer in risk and social theory for many years. His monograph Risk and Uncertainty in Government was published by Cavendish/Glasshouse in 2004, and he has published two edited collections on risk, Crime and the Risk Society (Ashgate 1998) and Governing Risks (Ashgate 2005). As well, he provided the chapters on risk in the Blackwell Companion to Criminology and The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society, as well as many articles on the subject in leading social science and criminology journals. He is currently Canada Research Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Carleton University, Ottawa. Kelly Hannah-Moffat is the author of Punishment in Disguise (2001), University of Toronto Press and of various other publications dealing with risk. She has been at the forefront of research linking risk and gender, through such publications as (2005) "Criminogenic Need and the Transformative Risk Subject; Hybridizations of Risk/Need in Penality." Punishment and Society; (2004)"Losing Ground: Gender, Responsibility and Parole Risk" Social Politics; (2004) "Gendering Risk at What Cost: Negotiations of Gender and Risk in Canadian Women's Prisons" Feminism and Psychology; with M. Shaw (2003) "What is a Risk: Rethinking Categories and Meanings" in B. Bloom and S. Covington (eds.) Gendered Justice: Addressing Female Offenders. North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press; and (1999) "Moral Agent or Actuarial Subject: Risk and Canadian Women's Imprisonment." Theoretical Criminology. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Sociology / Criminology at the University of Toronto at Mississauga.
Content
1. 'Introduction' Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Pat O'Malley 2. 'Risk, justice and diversity'. Barbara Hudson 3. 'Risk and victimization'. Sandra Walklate 4. 'Maculinities, "edgework" and risk taking'. Steve Lyng 5. 'Risk and gendered identities' Mariana Valverde 6. 'Barebacking, risk, and the productivity of prohibition' Kane Race 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.' Jessica Polzer 8. 'Genetics and risk in prenatal diagnosis' Silja Samerski 9. 'Risk, gender and genomics'. Roxanne Mykitiuk 10. 'Gendered risk assessment practices and pension investment decision-making' Mary Condon 11. '"Getting mad wi' it": risk-seeking by young women' Susan Batchelor 12. 'Risky relations: Criminogenic factors and female prisoners' Kelly Hannah-Moffat