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.

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