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Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Governance of Health in Neoliberal Societies

1 Fat Children, Failed (Future) Consumer-Citizens, and Mothers’ Duties in Neoliberal Consumer Society

2 Environment-as-Risk and Green Consumerism in Neoliberal Public Health Practices

3 Tween Girls, Human Papillomavirus (HPV), and the Deployment of Female Sexuality in English Canadian Magazines

4 Risk, Retirement, and the “Duty to Age Well”: Shaping Productive Aging Citizens in Canadian Newsprint Media

5 The Political Is Personal: Breast Cancer Risk, Genetic(optim)ization, and the Proactive Subject as Neoliberal Biological Citizen

6 Global Biopolitics and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Securitization and the Regulation of Viral Uncertainty and Mutual Vulnerability

7 Risk and Resistance: Citizenship and Self-Determination through Health Governance in Nunavut, Canada

8 “So It’s Always a Dance”: The Politics of Gifts and Governance at a Drop-In Centre for Vulnerable Women in Southern Ontario

9 “You Are Free to Set Your Own Hours”: Governing Worker Productivity and Health through Flexibility and Resilience

10 Active Citizenship and the Management of Stigma in Contingent Work

11 Self-Management and the Government of Disability: Reinforcing Normalcy through the Construction of Able-Disabled Subjectivities

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