Risks, identities and the everyday
Risks, identities and the everyday [electronic resource] /
edited by Julie Scott Jones, Jayne Raisborough.
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Limited, c2007.
- viii, 135 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Risk-taking (Psychology)
Accidents--Prevention.
Life skills.
Electronic books.
BF637.R57 / R575 2007eb
155.9
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Risk-taking (Psychology)
Accidents--Prevention.
Life skills.
Electronic books.
BF637.R57 / R575 2007eb
155.9