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.
Political Invisibility and Mobilization: Women against State Violence in Argentina, Yugoslavia, and Liberia
1st Edition
By Selina Gallo-Cruz
December 31, 2020
Political Invisibility and Mobilization explores the unseen opportunities available to those considered irrelevant and disregarded during periods of violent repression. In a comparative study of three women’s peace movements, in Argentina, the former Yugoslavia, and Liberia, the concept of ...
Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India: A Study of Social Justice, Identity and Agency in Assam
1st Edition
By Saba Hussain
December 18, 2020
Based on empirical research in India, this book presents a post-colonial feminist analysis of subjectivities available to Muslim girls and the ways in which they are inhabited and negotiated. Examining government education policies together with the narratives of teachers and parents, the author ...
Mexican American Women, Dress and Gender: Pachucas, Chicanas, Cholas
1st Edition
By Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo
December 18, 2020
Mexican American women have endured several layers of discrimination deriving from a strong patriarchal tradition and a difficult socioeconomic and cultural situation within the US ethnic and class organization. However, there have been groups of women who have defied their fates at different times...
Trauma, Women’s Mental Health, and Social Justice: Pitfalls and Possibilities
1st Edition
By Emma Tseris
September 30, 2020
This book argues that while notions of trauma in mental health hold promise for the advancement of women’s rights, the mainstreaming of trauma treatments and therapies has had mixed implications, sometimes replacing genuine social change efforts with new forms of female oppression by psychiatry. It...
Gender and Migration: Transnational and Intersectional Prospects
1st Edition
By Anna Amelina, Helma Lutz
August 14, 2020
From its beginnings in the 1970s and 1980s, interest in the topic of gender and migration has grown. Gender and Migration seeks to introduce the most relevant sociological theories of gender relations and migration that consider ongoing transnationalization processes, at the beginning of the third ...
Teaching Women's Studies in Conservative Contexts: Considering Perspectives for an Inclusive Dialogue
1st Edition
Edited
By Cantice Greene
August 14, 2020
Women’s Studies is a field that inspires strong reactions, both positive and negative, inside and outside of the classroom. The field, partly due to its activist origins, is often associated with liberal ideology and is therefore chided by students and others who identify as conservative. The goal ...
Women's Magazines in Print and New Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Noliwe Rooks, Victoria Pass, Ayana Weekley
August 14, 2020
This book contributes to our collective understanding of the significance of representations of women and gender in magazines in both their print and online forms. The essays are authored by scholars, writers and cultural producers in fields such as art, film and visual studies, literature, ...
Changing Names and Gendering Identity: Social Organisation in Contemporary Britain
1st Edition
By Rachel Thwaites
June 30, 2020
This book investigates contemporary naming practices on marriage in Britain, drawing on survey data and detailed interview material in which women offer their own accounts of the reasons for which they have changed or retained their names. Exploring the ways in which names are used to create and ...
Gender and Rural Migration: Realities, Conflict and Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
June 30, 2020
Gender and Rural Migration: Realities, Conflict and Change explores the intersection of gender, migration, and rurality in 21st-century Western and non-Western contexts. In a world where heightened globalization is making borders increasingly porous, rural communities form part of the ...
Masculinities and Femininities in Latin America's Uneven Development
1st Edition
By Susan Paulson
June 30, 2020
This book forges a new approach to historical and geographical change by asking how gender arrangements and dynamics influence the evolution of institutions and environments. This new theoretical approach is applied via mixed methods and a multi-scale framework to bring together unusually diverse ...
Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body
1st Edition
By Hannele Harjunen
June 30, 2020
In recent decades the rise of the so-called "global obesity epidemic" has led to fatness and fat bodies being debated incessantly in popular, professional, and academic arenas. Fatness and fat bodies are shamed and demonised, and the public monitoring, surveillance and outright policing by the ...
New Dynamics in Female Migration and Integration
1st Edition
Edited
By Christiane Timmerman, Marco Martiniello, Andrea Rea, Johan Wets
June 30, 2020
This book explores the dynamic interplay between cross-national and cross-cultural patterns of female migration, integration and social change, by focusing on the specific case of Belgium. It provides insight into the dynamic interplay between gender and migration, and especially contributes to the...