Masculinities, Gender Equality and Crisis Management (Hardcover, Rev Ed)

The overarching mission of the rescue services comprises three main areas of responsibility: protection against disasters and accidents; crisis management; and civil defence. This mission covers a long chain of obligations in trying to improve societal prevention capabilities and manage threats, risks, accidents, and disasters concerning generic as well as individual safety. It follows a reactive social chain of threat-risk-crisis-crisis management-care-rehabilitation. The authors in this book show that the interesting occupational characteristics of these societal duties are their connection to gender and crisis management in a wider sense. Gendered practices, processes, identities, and symbols are analytical lenses that provide a particular understanding and explanatory base that has received far too little attention in the academic literature. This book identifies four major themes in relation to a gendered understanding of the rescue services, and more generally emergency work: Masculine heroism Intersectional understandings of sexuality, class, and race Gender and technology Gender equality and mainstreaming processes This book shows how the rescue services constitute a productive ground for contemporary gender studies, including feminist theory, masculinity and sexuality studies. Its critical perspective provides new directions for emergency work and crisis management in a broader sense, and in particular for scholars and practitioners in these areas.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
Release date:	August 2016
Editors:	Mathias Ericson • Ulf Mellstroem
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	142
Edition:	Rev Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4724-7709-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Men's studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour
LSN:	1-4724-7709-X
Barcode:	9781472477095

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