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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...