Routledge Research in Gender and Society
About the Book Series
The social sciences continue to be transformed and enriched by analysis which takes gender, and the ways in which gender and society interact, to be of vital, defining importance. This series is new and broadly based, and will publish high-level contributions from across the disciplines.
Inclusion and Gender Empowerment in European Civil Society Organisations
1st Edition
Edited
By Amal Miri, Lore Van Praag, Havva Akçaoglu, Andrea Fleckinger, Laia Narciso
March 04, 2026
This book aims to rethink the intersection between inclusion and gender in civil society, media, academic and policy discourses across Europe. With a critical and participatory approach, this book advances the concept of ‘situated intersectionality’ to rethink empowerment as a dynamic process ...
Biotechnologies and Reproductive Agency: An Ethnography of Solo Motherhood in Spain and the United Kingdom
1st Edition
By Ana Bravo-Moreno
January 30, 2026
As artificial reproductive technologies become available to populations that have previously not had access to them, this book asks how reproduction is being transformed by technologies and individuals whose sexual and reproductive lives may defy sociocultural norms, religious codes and national ...
Mapping Queerness in Times of Uncertainty: Stories of Struggle, Invisibility and Space
1st Edition
By Arnaud Kurze, Sarah Sturken, Steve Thwe
January 30, 2026
This book offers a new critical perspective on emerging and alternative ‘spaces’ for emancipation within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities. It considers these across various geographic regions, and in times of social, political, and ecological uncertainty and change...
Health Activism and Sexual Politics: Feminist Engagements with Health, Illness and the Body
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Lindén, Emily Jay Nicholls, Josefin Persdotter
December 18, 2025
Health Activism and Sexual Politics: Feminist Engagements with Health, Illness and the Body explores the intersection of health activism and sexual politics through both traditional research chapters and innovative contributions on creative and scholarly practice as activism. The book showcases the...
Gender Fields: The Social Organisation of Gender Identity
1st Edition
By Sofia Aboim, Pedro Vasconcelos
November 28, 2025
Exploring gender through the lens of field theory, Gender Fields proposes a new framework for understanding the social organisation of gender identity. In conversation with Pierre Bourdieu's field theory, the book conceptualises under-theorised situated dimensions of gender, bridging the gap ...
The Gendering of Hope: Rural and Farming Women’s Biographies of Hope, Care and Resistance
1st Edition
By Lia Bryant
October 29, 2025
The Gendering of Hope reveals how hope and gender are relational and mediated in power in Australian rural and farming women’s lives. Through conversational interviews and memory work, Lia Bryant explores key moments of hope across the life trajectories of a group of intersectionally diverse women....
Equality Dancesport: Gender and Sexual Identities Matter
1st Edition
By Yen Nee Wong
August 30, 2025
Equality Dancesport uses a queer feminist lens to examine the materialisation of gender and sexuality through moving and dancing bodies, by taking readers through the initiation journey of becoming an equality dancesport competitor. A recent shift in the media representation of ballroom dancing on ...
Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction: Disappearing Heteronormativity?
1st Edition
By Paul Thompson
August 29, 2025
This book looks specifically and in depth, for the first time, at masculinity in cheap, lesbian-themed paperbacks of the two decades after WW2. It challenges established critical assumptions about the readership, and sets the masculinity imagined in these novels against the “masculinity crisis” of ...
What is Sexualized Violence?: Intersectional Readings
1st Edition
By Jana Schäfer
June 27, 2025
What is Sexualized Violence? Intersectional Readings uses an intersectional, queer, and subject-oriented approach to examine how societies constitute subjects as abilized and vulnerabilized with respect to sexualized violence. Contributing to our thinking about the dynamic relationship between ...
Women’s Roles in Times of War and Political Violence: Reclaiming Herstory
1st Edition
By Inga B. Kuźma, Edyta B. Pietrzak
June 10, 2025
This book explores the socio-political practice of collective memory in the context of prejudices and stereotypes that circulate in the public sphere with regard to the role of women experiencing wartime and political violence. With a focus on Poland and Central and Eastern Europe, it draws on ...
Mum Fans: Identity, Feminism and Fan Culture in Contemporary China
1st Edition
By Ye Li
May 30, 2025
This book explores the phenomenon of “mum fans”: fans who identify themselves as their idols’ mothers and participate in online, data-related fan activities termed “parenting.” With over 50% active fans identifying as mum fans in China, the vast majority of whom have no children and state no desire...
Violence, Care, Cure: Self/perceptions within the Medical Encounter
1st Edition
Edited
By Marta-Laura Cenedese, Clio Nicastro
May 10, 2025
This book explores the notions of violence, care, and cure within the medical encounter and seeks to foreground the ways in which, whether individually or as a triad, they are prone to ambiguous interpretations. The chapters of this book attend to the complex interlacing of these three key terms ...