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Risks, Identities and the Everyday focuses on the individual and
the lived experience of everyday risks - a departure from the focus
on risk from a macro level. The contributors look at risk and how
perceptions of risk, risk taking, and risk assessment increasingly
dominate our everyday lives and explore it in a variety of settings
not previously associated with risk theory, including: plastic
surgery, teenage sub-cultures, ageing and independent travel. The
volume moves risk away from abstract theorising about what people
may or may not fear about risks, to focus on how it actually
materialises and operates in everyday 'real' social interactions
and contexts. It also interrogates the rational self at the heart
of macro social theories by thinking through the construction of
risk choices and the socio-cultural dynamics that 'present' some
risks as acceptable, appropriate and necessary.
Risks, Identities and the Everyday focuses on the individual and
the lived experience of everyday risks - a departure from the focus
on risk from a macro level. The contributors look at risk and how
perceptions of risk, risk taking, and risk assessment increasingly
dominate our everyday lives and explore it in a variety of settings
not previously associated with risk theory, including: plastic
surgery, teenage sub-cultures, ageing and independent travel. The
volume moves risk away from abstract theorising about what people
may or may not fear about risks, to focus on how it actually
materialises and operates in everyday 'real' social interactions
and contexts. It also interrogates the rational self at the heart
of macro social theories by thinking through the construction of
risk choices and the socio-cultural dynamics that 'present' some
risks as acceptable, appropriate and necessary.
Private gun ownership for self-defence remains a major personal and
public issue in the US, driven by concerns about crime,
vulnerability and a range of 'ideological' factors. As media
attention centres upon the extent to which women are taking up
firearms, with the gun lobby and firearms manufacturers celebrating
the 'new armed woman', and guns being promoted as 'Rape Prevention
Kits', this book explores the changing gendered aspects of gun
ownership. Can ownership of firearms by women be considered, as
some have claimed, the embodiment of what might be termed 'pioneer
feminism', as women resist male violence in a dangerous world, or
is a different story told by the prominence of women in firearms
control campaigns, or the fact that women remain the most common
victims of male gun ownership? Analysing representations of the
'armed woman' in firearm and gun lobby marketing and advertising
campaigns, together with television and popular music forms, Gender
and Firearms: My Body, My Gun, My Choice examines the directions
taken in the public debate on weaponisation in the US, considering
the role of women in the politics of gun safety and gun control.
The book draws on statistical evidence in order to shed light on
trends in gun ownership, whilst engaging with feminist scholarship
on the relationship between gender, violence, risk and
vulnerabilities, thus opening up new debates surrounding identity,
performance, gender and risk in contemporary societies. As such it
will apply to sociologists and scholars of cultural and media
studies with interests in gender, embodiment, risk, criminology and
violence.
Our televisions bulge with weight-loss shows, as the news warn of
the obesity epidemic. Fat is such a villain that larger people are
stigmatized and we all are seduced by life-changing claims of a
multi-billion pound diet industry. Yet, when we question if our
bathroom scales can really tell us about our health, we start to
ask just why and how fat holds such fascination. In this book,
Jayne Raisborough explores interpretations of fat bodies from
Palaeolithic Europe to Poverty Porn TV to argue that fat's
materiality makes it ripe for stigmatising associations. However,
especially in a social context that presents health as a matter of
choice, fat also emerges as an ideal redemptive substance to be
pummelled and starved into submission. This book presents a 'fat
sensibility' to demonstrate how fat is helping us all become
responsibilised healthy-citizens. It asks just what self are we
being asked to diet ourselves into?
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