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Masculinities, Gender Equality and Crisis Management (Paperback)
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Masculinities, Gender Equality and Crisis Management (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
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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.
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