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This book brings feminist theories and concepts to the sociology of risk in an attempt to define intersectional risk theories in times of ambivalence. Why ambivalence? As Smart states:‘Ambivalence, both analytical and existential, is an understandable consequence of not knowing, and knowing that one cannot know for sure, precisely what will emerge from the various complex processes of restructuring through which modernity is continually (re) constituted. Late modernity, or the postmodern reconditioning of modernity, constitutes a form of social life in which ambivalence is pervasive’(Smart 1999, p. 11). This is a framework that embraces a critical perspective of ambivalence to unpack risk, conceptualising social as well as material artefacts in terms of risk and its relation to power. Therefore, the scope of the book is not to explain the world and everything observed within it through a few concepts or mechanisms …