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.
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 ...
Inequalities and the Paradigm of Excellence in Academia
1st Edition
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By Fiona Jenkins, Barbara Hoenig, Susanne Maria Weber, Andrea Wolffram
January 29, 2024
This volume examines the criteria of excellence producing inequalities of gender in the daily working environment and evaluation of academics. Policymakers have increasingly placed emphasis on gender equality as part of a strategy for achieving research excellence, and efforts to reduce gender bias...
The Social Science of Same-Sex Marriage: LGBT People and Their Relationships in the Era of Marriage Equality
1st Edition
Edited
By Aaron Hoy
May 31, 2023
Showcasing research from across the social sciences, this edited volume seeks to provide readers with an empirically grounded sense of how many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people marry in the US and Canada, what their marriages look like, and how LGBT people themselves are ...
Women and Suicide in Iran: Law, Marriage and Honour-Killing
1st Edition
By S. Behnaz Hosseini
May 31, 2023
Drawing on feminist theory, as well as theory surrounding the correlation between poverty and suicide, this study explores the increased rate of suicide among women in western Iran. Based on empirical research, including interviews with women from the Kurdish region of the country, the author ...
The Genealogy of Modern Feminist Thinking: Feminist Thought as Historical Present
1st Edition
By Ingeborg W. Owesen
January 09, 2023
Within much contemporary feminist theory there is a tendency to forget or ignore its own historicity and consider itself as primarily oriented towards the present. This book explores the historical roots of some of feminism’s central concepts and debates, examining the philosophical conditions for ...
British-Bangladeshi Women in Higher Education: Aspirations, Inequities and Identities
1st Edition
By Berenice Scandone
December 30, 2022
Drawing on primary qualitative research, this book explores the experiences and identities of a group of British-born women of Bangladeshi background attending university in London through a Bourdieusian theoretical framework. It demonstrates the inequities that these women experience in UK higher ...
Men and Welfare
1st Edition
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By Anna Tarrant, Linzi Ladlow, Laura Way
December 30, 2022
This book explores the complex, evolving relationships between men, masculinities, and social welfare in contemporary context. It is inspired by themes examined in ‘Men, Gender Divisions and Welfare’, an edited collection published in 1998 by Popay, Hearn, and Edwards. While international policy ...
Women of Faith and the Quest for Spiritual Authenticity: Comparative Perspectives from Malaysia and Britain
1st Edition
By Sara Ashencaen Crabtree
September 26, 2022
Drawn from over fifty-eight individual, in-depth, qualitative interviews with women of faith in Malaysia and Britain, Women of Faith and the Quest for Spiritual Authenticity is a multifaith, multicultural and cross-cultural comparative focus that explores women’s religious expressions, as ...
Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities: Re-reading Social Constructions of Gender across the Globe in a Decolonial Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Heidemarie Winkel, Angelika Poferl
August 01, 2022
Until today, Western, European sociology contributes to the social reality of colonial modernity, and gender knowledge is a paradigmatic example of it. Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities critically engages with these ‘Western eyes’ and shifts the focus towards the global ...
Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence
1st Edition
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By Lucas Gottzén, Margunn Bjørnholt, Floretta Boonzaier
May 30, 2022
Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence examines how gender and other social identities and inequalities shape experiences of, and responses to, violence in intimate relationships. It provides new insights into men as both perpetrators and victims of violence, as well as on how to involve ...
Transdisciplinary Feminist Research: Innovations in Theory, Method and Practice
1st Edition
By Carol Taylor, Jasmine Ulmer, Christina Hughes
May 06, 2022
What is feminist transdisciplinary research? Why is it important? How do we do it? Through 19 contributions from leading international feminist scholars, this book provides new insights into activating transdisciplinary feminist theories, methods and practices in original, creative and ...