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.
Trauma and the Rehabilitation of Trafficked Women: The Experiences of Yazidi Survivors
1st Edition
By S. Behnaz Hosseini
May 06, 2022
Based on research in camps in Iraqi Kurdistan and among refugees in Germany, this book addresses the challenges, strategies and support systems that exist for the rehabilitation and reintegration of Yazidi women recovering from human trafficking. Through in-depth interviews, focus group discussions...
Trauma Transmission and Sexual Violence: Reconciliation and Peacebuilding in Post Conflict Settings
1st Edition
By Nena Močnik
April 29, 2022
This book grapples with the potential impacts of collective trauma in war-rape survivors’ families. Drawing on inter-ethnic and inter-generational participatory action research on reconciliation processes in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina, the author examines the risk that female survivors of ...
The Gender-Sensitive University: A Contradiction in Terms?
1st Edition
Edited
By Eileen Drew, Siobhán Canavan
February 01, 2022
The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism. This book ...
Identity, Belonging, and Community in Men’s Roller Derby
1st Edition
By Dawn Fletcher
December 13, 2021
Modern roller derby has been theorised as a gendered leisure context, offering women opportunities for empowerment and growth, and enabling them to carve a space for themselves in sport. No longer a women-only sport, roller derby is now played by all genders and has been heralded as a model of ...
Women and Reproductive Technologies: The Socio-Economic Development of Technologies Changing the World
1st Edition
By Annette Burfoot, Derya Güngör
November 16, 2021
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. A sociological and historical study of the development of reproductive technologies, this book focuses on key ...
Young, Disabled and LGBT+: Voices, Identities and Intersections
1st Edition
Edited
By Alex Toft, Anita Franklin
September 30, 2021
Young, Disabled and LGBT+ brings together the work of an international team interested in exploring the intersection of sexuality, gender identity, and disability in the lives of young people and aims to further develop this area as a distinct area of study. This volume features original research ...
Rape in the Nordic Countries: Continuity and Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie Bruvik Heinskou, May-Len Skilbrei, Kari Stefansen
June 30, 2021
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429467608, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.While the Nordic countries are listed at the top in most international rankings of gender ...
Reframing Drag: Beyond Subversion and the Status Quo
1st Edition
By Kayte Stokoe
June 30, 2021
Reframing Drag provides a critical survey of French and Anglo-American queer and feminist theorizations of drag performance, placing these approaches in a dialogue with contemporary drag practice and the representation of drag in three literary texts. Challenging pervasive assumptions circulating ...
Gender Violence in Ecofeminist Perspective: Intersections of Animal Oppression, Patriarchy and Domination of the Earth
1st Edition
By Gwen Hunnicutt
April 01, 2021
This book aims to begin an eco-centered, eco-feminist informed discussion about the ways in which our relationship to “nature” is bound up with gender, patriarchy, and violence.Ecofeminist scholars study the interconnections between gendered relationships of domination among humans, between humans,...
Motherhood in Contemporary International Perspective: Continuity and Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq
April 01, 2021
Divided into 15 chapters, this book provides the reader with an insight into certain representations of mothers and motherhood in history and today’s societies in some areas of the world, notably in Britain and Asia. Key facts about the history of motherhood are presented, together with ...
Negotiating Marriage, Family and Work: Experiences of Middle Class Egyptian Women
1st Edition
By Dahlia Roque
March 31, 2021
Caught between two worlds of social transition and modern progression, young women in the Middle East have for some time been forging means to balance conventional gender roles and marriage expectations, while also advancing their position in society through improved legal status, health and ...
White Masculinity in Contemporary Australia: The Good Ol’ Aussie Bloke
1st Edition
By Andrea Waling
March 31, 2021
Spanning the disciplines of sociology, history, media and cultural studies, and popular culture, this book offers a historical exploration of Australian masculine tropes and an examination of contemporary representations of masculinity in the media. With attention to a range of thematic issues, ...