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.
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, 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 29, 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 ...
Overcoming Objectification: A Carnal Ethics
2nd Edition
By Ann J. Cahill
December 19, 2024
The second edition of Overcoming Objectification: A Carnal Ethics provides a critical analysis of the widely used (particularly in feminist philosophy) concept of objectification, and offers a new concept (derivatization) in its stead. Cahill suggests an abandonment of objectification due to the ...
Intimate Partner Femicide: Contesting the Legal Story
1st Edition
By Bethany Wilkinson, Susan Goodwin
December 11, 2024
Domestic violence legislation is a key response to the entrenched social problem of intimate partner violence across the globe, yet little is known about the legal players who implement these laws in terms of their perceptions of intimate partner violence and femicide. Through in-depth, critical ...
Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics: An Arendtian Approach
1st Edition
By Maria Tamboukou
November 28, 2024
This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical approaches to love and agonistic politics. Arend’s interlocutors are four revolutionary women in the long durée of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in ...
Gender-Based Violence in Mexico: Narratives, the State and Emancipations
1st Edition
Edited
By Ana Luisa Sánchez Hernández, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, Francisco Díaz Estrada
November 28, 2024
This book examines the roots of systemic aggression against women in contemporary Mexico, and the connection between social practices and the institutional permissiveness of the Mexican State with regard to gendered violence. Since the democratic transition at the end of the 1990s, Mexico has ...
Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities
1st Edition
Edited
By Garth Stahl, Yang Zhao
November 28, 2024
Foregrounding the ways in which men experience transnational migration, Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities considers how we conceptualise and theorise mobile men in a global context. Bringing together studies from around the world (e.g. Australia, Pakistan, Tunisia, Zimbabwe ...