Risks, identities and the everyday
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| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Pub. Limited,
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10209174 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: situating risk in the everyday / Julie Scott Jones and Jayne Raisborough
- Contexts of choice: the risky business of elective cosmetic surgery / Jayne Raisborough
- "Fearing the worse, hoping for the best": the discursive construction of risk in pregnancy / Dawn. S. Jones
- PE kits, playgrounds & pain: an exploration of children's experiences of risk, pain and injury in sport / Lara Killick
- Talking risks: constructing desired masculinities / David Merryweather
- Violence, risk and identity: "doing gender" or negotiation of structural barriers to non-violent alternatives? / Wendy Laverick
- "Get with the programme": human resource management a risky strategy? / Sal Watt
- Are we there yet: negotiating transitions and meaning crisis in young adults / Julie Scott Jones
- Index.