Risks, identities and the everyday
By: edited by Julie Scott Jones, Jayne Raisborough.
Contributors: Jones, Julie Scott, 1966-; Raisborough, Jayne, 1969-
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Limited; Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780754648611
Subjects: Risk-taking (Psychology); Accidents -- Prevention; Life skills
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: situating risk in the everyday / Julie Scott Jones and Jayne Raisborough; title: Contexts of choice: the risky business of elective cosmetic surgery / Jayne Raisborough; title: "Fearing the worse, hoping for the best": the discursive construction of risk in pregnancy / Dawn. S. Jones; title: PE kits, playgrounds & pain: an exploration of children's experiences of risk, pain and injury in sport / Lara Killick; title: Talking risks: constructing desired masculinities / David Merryweather; title: Violence, risk and identity: "doing gender" or negotiation of structural barriers to non-violent alternatives? / Wendy Laverick; title: "Get with the programme": human resource management a risky strategy? / Sal Watt; title: Are we there yet: negotiating transitions and meaning crisis in young adults / Julie Scott Jones; title: Index.