Gendered Risks

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p> <p>1. Introduction<em> </em>2. Risk, Justice and Diversity<em> </em>3. Risk and Victimization<em> </em>4. Maculinities, 'Edgework' and Risk Taking <em> </em>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<em> </em>8. Genetics and Risk in Prenatal Diagnosis<em> </em>9. Risk, Gender and Genomics<em> </em>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 </p>