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.
Mapping Queerness in Times of Uncertainty: Stories of Struggle, Invisibility and Space
1st Edition
By Arnaud Kurze, Sarah Sturken, Steve Thwe
November 26, 2024
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...
Biotechnologies and Reproductive Agency: An Ethnography of Solo Motherhood in Spain and the United Kingdom
1st Edition
By Ana Bravo-Moreno
October 14, 2024
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 ...
Gendering the Political Economy of Labour Market Policies
1st Edition
By Rosa Mulè, Roberto Rizza
October 08, 2024
This book is a re-interpretation of labour market policy models from a gender perspective, providing an analysis of within-gender inequality and how these policies affect inequality. It sheds light on the internal and external challenges confronting different gendered political economies, with ...
Gender Fields: The Social Organisation of Gender Identity
1st Edition
By Sofia Aboim, Pedro Vasconcelos
September 30, 2024
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 ...
Exploring Autistic Sexualities, Relationality, and Genders: Living Under a Double Rainbow
1st Edition
Edited
By Hanna Rosqvist, Anna Day, Meaghan Krazinski
September 26, 2024
This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationality among Autistic people. Written within an explicitly neuro-affirmative frame, the collection celebrates the diversity and richness of Autistic identity, sexuality, gender, and relationships, ...
Debates Around Abortion in the Global North: Europe, North America, Russia and Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq
August 26, 2024
By means of a historical, legal and scientific approach, this book identifies the issues, progress and setbacks in the right for women to access abortion in various countries of the Global North. The book provides insights on the past, present and potential actions and struggles in the future about...
Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition
1st Edition
Edited
By KJ Cerankowski, Megan Milks
June 27, 2024
As one of the first book-length collections of critical essays on the topic of asexuality, Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives became a foundational text in the burgeoning field of asexuality studies. This revised and expanded ten-year anniversary edition both celebrates the book’s impact...
Re-Thinking Men: Heroes, Villains and Victims
2nd Edition
By Anthony Synnott
May 31, 2024
Much writing on men in the field of gender studies tends to focus unduly, almost exclusively, on portraying men as villains and women as victims in a moral bi-polar paradigm. Re-Thinking Men reverses the proclivity which ignores not only the positive contributions of men to society, but also the ...
A Community of Practice Approach to Improving Gender Equality in Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachel Palmén, Jörg Müller
May 27, 2024
Bringing together the latest research among various communities of practice (disciplinary and place based as well as thematically organised), this volume reflects upon the knowledge, experience and practice gained through taking a unique community of practice approach to fostering gender equality ...
Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity
1st Edition
Edited
By Róisín Ryan-Flood, Amy Tooth Murphy
April 05, 2024
Queering Desire explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer women’s, and non-binary people’s experiences of identity and desire. Taking an intersectional feminist and trans-inclusive approach, and incorporating new and established ...
Gender and Firearms: My Body, My Choice, My Gun
1st Edition
By Peter Squires
April 01, 2024
Private gun ownership for self-defense remains a major personal and public issue in the United States, driven by concerns about crime, vulnerability and a range of ‘ideological’ factors, including race and gender. As media attention centres upon the extent to which women are taking up firearms, ...
Gender and the Politics of Disaster Recovery: Dealing with the Aftermath
1st Edition
Edited
By Sajal Roy
January 29, 2024
Drawing a transdisciplinary perspective, this book investigates the ways in which gender intersect with rebuilding and post-disaster recovery process. It shows how climate-induced disasters as well as the recent COVID-19 pandemic have impacted human lives and livelihoods across various global ...